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Author Trogdon, Jo Ann, author.

Title The unknown travels and dubious pursuits of William Clark / Jo Ann Trogdon.

Publication Info. Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 469 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-451) and index.
Contents Part I. A small adventure of tobacco, March 8 to April 23, 1798 -- Part II. Important connections from New Orleans to Natchez and back again, April 24 to August 15, 1798 -- Part III. The homeward journey, August 16 to December 24, 1798 -- Part IV. More hardship and challenge, 1799 to 1807 -- Epilogue. The mammoth of iniquity escaped -- So, did "nothing extraordinary" happen?
Summary In 1798 more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes--William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky, home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him a leather-trimmed journal to record his travels and notes on his activities. In this vivid history, Jo Ann Trogdon reveals William Clark's highly questionable activities during the years before his famous journey west of the Mississippi. Delving into the details of Clark's diary and ledger entries, Trogdon investigates evidence linking Clark to a series of plots--often called the Spanish Conspiracy--in which corrupt officials sought to line their pockets with Spanish money and to separate Kentucky from the United States. The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark gives readers a more complex portrait of the American icon than has been previously written.
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Subject Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Clark, William, 1770-1838.
Travel.
Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Diaries.
Diaries.
West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries.
Explorers.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Trogdon, Jo Ann. Unknown travels and dubious pursuits of William Clark. Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2015] 9780826220493 (OCoLC)891854313
ISBN 9780826273505 (electronic book)
0826273505 (electronic book)
9780826220493
0826220495