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122) Lewis and Clark
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Meet Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and relive their historic expedition to explore the land from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the primary objective of Lewis and Clark's perilous journey was to explore and map the newly acquired territory, find a practical route across the Western half of the continent, and establish an American presence in this territory....
123) The coming: a novel
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An epic novel of native-white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke--the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman. In 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation. The Nez Perce help the explorers build canoes and navigate the rapids of the Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring before leading them back across the snowbound mountains....
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Manifest destiny volume 5
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"Lewis and Clark hunker down for the winter, and all is calm ... until old enemies emerge from the fog. Behind their fortified walls, the Corps of Discovery turn against each other, and Sacagawea's long-held mistrust of her companions manifests. After all, a mother will do anything to protect her child--especially from her demons."--Page 4 of cover.
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Manifest destiny volume 6
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"Sixty years before the Civil War, the Corps of Discovery is at war with itself, with Captains Lewis and Clark at the center! As the snow falls and tensions build, everyone has to decide what path they want to follow--salvation, or mutiny? If they ever hope to reach the Pacific coast, they must learn an important lesson: Don't listen to the voices in your head."--Page [4] of cover.
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From the earliest times, men and women explored their world. Some searched for trade routes, lost treasures, or new lands to colonize; others traveled as missionaries, to spread religious beliefs. More than anything else, however, what motivated the greatest explorers was simple curiosity.What was on the other side of that mountain? How wide was North America? Where was the source of the Nile River? Finding out often involved traveling incredible...
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Written from a naturalist's point of view, this volume not only provides a detailed study of the much-neglected scientific and technical aspects of the famous expedition, but brings Lewis and Clark fully onto the stage of American history as important pioneering naturalists. The natural settings and routine of camp life; Clark's cartographic abilities and Lewis's exceptional naturalistic ones; relations with Indians, both friendly and hostile -- all...
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"Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce is a generous and careful re-evaluation of what we all thought we knew about Lewis and Clark west of the Bitterroot Mountains. It is also a template for a series of tribal histories of the Lewis and Clark expedition that will be inspired by this book. Incidents we thought we knew backwards and forwards suddenly take on a new light when the historical lens is reversed, and the reader begins to understand what the...
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