History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and ClarkElliot Coues Cosimo, Inc., 1 сент. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 476 It is one of the grandest adventures in American history, and this is the premiere retelling of it. When explorers MERIWETHER LEWIS (1774-1809) and WILLIAM CLARK (1770-1838) embarked on their continent-spanning journey across North America in 1804, they also began keeping daily journals full of detailed accounts of their travels and keen observations of the wildlife, flora, and native peoples they encountered. But it wasn't until 1893 that those journals were edited into this definitive presentation. That four-volume 1893 work is here presented in its entirety in three volumes, and including all of editor Elliot Coues's explanatory notes, chapter synopses, and more. Volume II features the expedition's forging of the mighty Columbia River, encounters with Shoshone, Tillamook, and Chinnook Indians, and much more. As thrilling as it is informative, this is essential reading for anyone fascinated by the opening of the American frontier. American doctor, historian, ornithologist, and author ELLIOTT COUES (1842-1899) helped create the taxonomic nomenclature still in use by zoologists. He wrote the foundational Key to North American Birds (1872) and edited The Travels of Zebulon M. Pike (1895). |
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... timber to be found is in the low grounds which are occasionally on the river , and these are the haunts of innumerable birds , which , when the sun began to shine , sang very delightfully . Among these birds they distinguished the brown ...
... timber to be found is in the low grounds which are occasionally on the river , and these are the haunts of innumerable birds , which , when the sun began to shine , sang very delightfully . Among these birds they distinguished the brown ...
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... timber on the low grounds , and none on the highlands . Near the camp this evening a white bear attacked one of the men [ J. Fields ] , whose gun , happening to be wet , would not go off ; he instantly made toward a tree , but was so ...
... timber on the low grounds , and none on the highlands . Near the camp this evening a white bear attacked one of the men [ J. Fields ] , whose gun , happening to be wet , would not go off ; he instantly made toward a tree , but was so ...
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... timber of the Missouri , is here mixed another species [ P. angustifolia ] , differing from the first only in the narrowness of its leaf and the greater thickness of its bark . The leaf is long , oval , acutely pointed , about 21⁄2 or ...
... timber of the Missouri , is here mixed another species [ P. angustifolia ] , differing from the first only in the narrowness of its leaf and the greater thickness of its bark . The leaf is long , oval , acutely pointed , about 21⁄2 or ...
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... timber . Here on a cottonwood tree an eagle had fixed her nest , and seemed the undisputed mistress of a spot , to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast would venture across the gulfs that surround it , and which is further ...
... timber . Here on a cottonwood tree an eagle had fixed her nest , and seemed the undisputed mistress of a spot , to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast would venture across the gulfs that surround it , and which is further ...
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... timber which adorned its shores . The Missouri itself stretches to the south in one unruffled stream of water , as if unconscious of the roughness it must soon encounter , and bearing on its bosom vast flocks of geese ; while numerous ...
... timber which adorned its shores . The Missouri itself stretches to the south in one unruffled stream of water , as if unconscious of the roughness it must soon encounter , and bearing on its bosom vast flocks of geese ; while numerous ...
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CONTENTS | 401 |
CHAPTER XII | 414 |
CHAPTER XIII | 446 |
CHAPTER XIV | 476 |
CHAPTER XV | 508 |
CHAPTER XVI | 541 |
CHAPTER XVII | 571 |
CHAPTER XIX | 653 |
CHAPTER XX | 687 |
CHAPTER XXI | 718 |
CHAPTER XXII | 747 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 773 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 793 |
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Стр. 367 - I might be enabled to give to the enlightened world some just idea of this truly magnifficent and sublimely grand object, which has from the commencement of time been concealed from the view of civilized man; but this was fruitless and vain.