The Journals of Lewis and ClarkPenguin, 31 дек. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 560 In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank—not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. |
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... gives rise to excesses and weakness , as well as doubts and concerns about day - to - day details we all share . It is now a commonplace to present the personalities of the two men as polar opposites : Lewis as a brooding , romantic ...
... gives rise to excesses and weakness , as well as doubts and concerns about day - to - day details we all share . It is now a commonplace to present the personalities of the two men as polar opposites : Lewis as a brooding , romantic ...
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... give overlapping reports of the same events . The result , however , is only a sampling . No abridg- ment can fully convey the dazzling epic quality of the complete journals or their splendid achievement in the literature of natural ...
... give overlapping reports of the same events . The result , however , is only a sampling . No abridg- ment can fully convey the dazzling epic quality of the complete journals or their splendid achievement in the literature of natural ...
Стр. xviii
... give shape to new forms of perception . Language itself has to be altered to describe a new country and its native inhabitants ; words coined and twisted and adapted to the occasion in the journals pro- duced the addition of more than ...
... give shape to new forms of perception . Language itself has to be altered to describe a new country and its native inhabitants ; words coined and twisted and adapted to the occasion in the journals pro- duced the addition of more than ...
Стр. xxiii
... give in such a case . As your movements while within the limits of the U.S. will be better directed by occasional communications , adapted to circum- stances as they arise , they will not be noticed here . what follows will respect your ...
... give in such a case . As your movements while within the limits of the U.S. will be better directed by occasional communications , adapted to circum- stances as they arise , they will not be noticed here . what follows will respect your ...
Стр. xxvii
... give some security to your own party . carry with you some matter of the kine - pox , inform those of them with whom you may be of it's efficacy as a preservative from the small - pox ; and instruct & incourage them in the use of it ...
... give some security to your own party . carry with you some matter of the kine - pox , inform those of them with whom you may be of it's efficacy as a preservative from the small - pox ; and instruct & incourage them in the use of it ...
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Up the Missouri | 1 |
Meeting the Lakota | 35 |
Winter Among the Mandan | 71 |
The Great Unknown | 95 |
The Thundering Falls | 152 |
In Search of the Shoshone | 191 |
Across the Great Divide | 222 |
Down the Rapids | 289 |
Winter at Fort Clatsop | 326 |
The Start for Home | 369 |
Lewis Shortcut | 444 |
The Homestretch | 468 |
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Стр. xxviii - Should you reach the Pacific ocean, inform yourself of the circumstances which may decide whether the furs of those parts may not be collected as advantageously at the head of the Missouri (convenient as is supposed to the waters of the Colorado and...
Стр. xxvii - Genevieve opposite Kaskaskia. From still further up the river the traders may furnish a conveyance for letters. Beyond that you may perhaps be able to engage Indians to bring letters for the government to Cahokia, or Kaskaskia, on promising that they shall there receive such special compensation as you shall have stipulated with them. Avail yourself of these means to communicate to us, at seasonable intervals, a copy of your journal, notes and observations of every kind.
Стр. xxv - And, considering the interest which every nation has in extending & strengthening the authority of reason & justice among the people around them, it will be useful...