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1 online resource (xviii, 284 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. |
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Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson -- "They appeared in violent rage" Pryor and Shannon's battle with the Arikara -- "He saw the prairie behind him covered with Indians in full and rapid chase" The adventures of John Colter -- "This has not been done through malice" George Drouillard's murder trial -- "The gloomy and savage wilderness" The mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis -- "I give and recommend my soul" The deaths of George Gibson, Jean-Baptiste Lepage, and John Shields -- "A sincere and undisguised heart" George Shannon's early career -- "He must have fought in a circle on horseback" George Drouillard's death at the hands of the Blackfeet -- "Water as high as the trees" William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake. |
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"She was a good and the best woman in the Fort" Sacagawea's death -- "The crisis is fast approaching" The Corps and the War of 1812 -- "We lost in all fourteen killed" John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau among the mountain men -- "Taken with the cholera in Tennessee and died" The sad fate of York -- "Men on Lewis & Clark's trip" William Clark's accounting of Expedition members -- "Active to the last" The final decades of the Corps -- Appendix A. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Appendix B. The death of Meriwether Lewis -- Appendix C. The Sacagawea controversy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.
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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. |
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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Friends and associates.
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Friends and associates. |
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Clark, William, 1770-1838.
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Clark, William, 1770-1838. |
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Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Friends and associates.
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Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
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Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) |
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Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806. |
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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. |
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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Amis et relations. |
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Clark, William, 1770-1838. |
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Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Amis et relations. |
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Expédition Lewis et Clark (1804-1806) |
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Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
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Explorers. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morris, Larry E., 1951- Fate of the corps. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004000196 |
| ISBN |
9780300130249 (electronic book) |
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0300130244 (electronic book) |
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0300102658 |
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9780300102659 |
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