Before Lewis And Clark

Author : Shirley Christian
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803225245

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Before Lewis and Clark by Shirley Christian Pdf

Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus, patrician and French in their origins, made their fortunes along the two-thousand-mile length of the Missouri River. Led by the brothers Auguste and Pierre, the family not only engaged in land speculation, finance, and the fur trade but also acted as suppliers and advisers to expeditions and enterprises between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains?including the famous expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806. This is the story of the Old World meeting the New, of the eastern United States discovering the West, and of a wealthy, powerful, charming, and manipulative family that dominated business and politics in the Louisiana Purchase territory before and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Author : Abraham Phineas Nasatir
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0806134674

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Before Lewis and Clark by Abraham Phineas Nasatir Pdf

For Before Lewis and Clark, A. P. Nasatir translated and annotated 239 documents relating to the history of the exploration of the Missouri River through 1804, when Lewis and Clark began their ascent of the waterway. The value of this collection is in the range of documents Nasatir included, some of which are unavailable elsewhere. The volume also includes seven maps; two facsimile illustrations; and an excerpt from the journal of Jean Baptiste Truteau, the Canadian-born explorer whose record of his 1794-95 travels proved valuable to Lewis and Clark. This edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Nasatir’s landmark document collection. Five fold-out maps omitted from the most recent paperback edition have been restored for this one-volume edition.

Author : David L. Nicandri
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636820774

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Lewis and Clark Reframed by David L. Nicandri Pdf

Spanish, British, and French explorers reached the Pacific Northwest before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The American captains benefited from those predecessors, even carrying with them copies of their published accounts. James Cook, George Vancouver, and Alexander Mackenzie--and to a lesser extent fur traders John Meares and Robert Gray--directly and indirectly influenced the expedition. Based on new material as well as revised essays from popular history journals, Lewis and Clark Reframed examines several curious and seemingly inexplicable aspects of the journey after the Corps of Discovery crossed the Rocky Mountains. The captains’ journals demonstrate that they relied on Mackenzie’s 1801 Voyages from Montreal as a trail guide. They borrowed field techniques and favorite literary expressions--at times plagiarizing entire paragraphs. Cook’s literature also informed the pair, and his naming conventions evoke fresh ideas about an enduring expedition mystery--the identity of the two or three journalists whose records are now missing. Additional journal text analysis dispels the notion that the captains were equals, despite expedition lore. Lewis claimed all the epochal discoveries for himself, and in one of his more memorable passages, drew on Mackenzie for inspiration. Parallels between Cook’s and other exploratory accounts offer evidence that like many long-distance voyagers, Lewis grappled with homesickness. His friendship with Mahlon Dickerson lends insights into Lewis’s shortcomings and eventual undoing. As secretary of the navy, Dickerson drew from Lewis’s troubled past to impede the 1840s ocean expedition set to emulate Cook and solidify America’s claim, through Lewis and Clark, to the region.

Author : Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496206350

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One Vast Winter Count by Colin Gordon Calloway Pdf

This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, One Vast Winter Count offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. Drawing on a wide range of oral and archival sources from across the West, Colin G. Calloway offers an unparalleled glimpse at the lives of generations of Native peoples in a western land soon to be overrun.

Author : Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826263445

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François Vallé and His World by Carl J. Ekberg Pdf

In Francois Valle and His World, Carl Ekberg provides a fascinating biography of Francois Valle (1716-1783), placing him within the context of his place and time. Valle, who was born in Beauport, Canada, immigrated to Upper Louisiana (the Illinois Country) as a penniless common laborer sometime during the early 1740s. Engaged in agriculture, lead mining, and the Indian trade, he ultimately became the wealthiest and most powerful individual in Upper Louisiana, although he never learned to read or write. Ekberg focuses on Upper Louisiana in colonial times, long before Lewis and Clark arrived in the Mississippi River valley and before American sovereignty had reached the eastern bank of the Mississippi. He vividly captures the ambience of life in the eighteenth-century frontier agricultural society that Valle inhabited, shedding new light on the French and Spanish colonial regimes in Louisiana and on the Mississippi River frontier before the Americans arrived. Based entirely on primary source documents wills and testaments, parish registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, and Spanish administrative correspondence found in archives ranging from St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve to New Orleans and Seville, Francois Valle and His World traces not only the life of Francois Valle and the lives of his immediate family members, but also the lives of his slaves. In doing so, it provides a portrait of Missouri's very first black families, something that has never before been attempted. Ekberg also analyzes how the illiterate Valle became the richest person in all of Upper Louisiana, and how he rose in the sociopolitical hierarchy to become an important servant of the Spanish monarchy. Francois Valle and His World provides a useful corrective to the fallacious notion that Missouri's history began with the arrival of Lewis and Clark at the turn of the nineteenth century. Anyone with an interest in colonial history or the history of the Mississippi River valley will find this book of great value.

Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803290198

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Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition) by James P. Ronda Pdf

Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""

Author : William Clark,Meriwether Lewis,Gary E. Moulton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Botany
ISBN : 0803228759

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August 25, 1804 - April 6, 1805 by William Clark,Meriwether Lewis,Gary E. Moulton Pdf

Author : Salish-Pend D'Oreille Culture Committee,Elders Cultural Advisory Council,Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803216432

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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Salish-Pend D'Oreille Culture Committee,Elders Cultural Advisory Council,Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Pdf

On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harvesting chokecherries as they had done for countless generations. As the Lewis and Clark Expedition ventured into the territory of a sovereign Native nation, the Salish met the strangers with hospitality and vital provisions while receiving comparatively little in return. ø For the first time, a Native American community offers an in-depth examination of the events and historical significance of its encounter with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition is a startling departure from previous accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Rather than looking at Indian people within the context of the expedition, it examines the expedition within the context of tribal history. The arrival of non-Indians is therefore framed not as the beginning of the history of Montana or the West but as only a recent chapter in a far longer Native history. The result is a new understanding of the expedition and its place in the wider context of the history of Indian-white relations. ø Based on three decades of research and oral histories, this book presents tribal elders recounting the Salish encounter with Lewis and Clark. Richly illustrated, The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition not only sheds new light on the meaning of the expedition but also illuminates the people who greeted Lewis and Clark and, despite much of what followed, thrive in their homeland today.

Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0917298454

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Voyages of Discovery by James P. Ronda Pdf

This Level 1 reader is a sweet treat for Valentine's Day! Dragon wants to make cookies for all his friends for Valentine’s Day. But the smell of baking cookies is so yummy, he ends up eating all the cookies! Will he find another way to show his friends how much he loves them?

Author : Meriwether Lewis,William Clark
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0486212688

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The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Meriwether Lewis,William Clark Pdf

Here is the whole story as summarized by Biddle: encounters with dozens of Indian tribes; descriptions of their political and social organization, dress, living habits and ways; personal anecdotes of courage and stamina; vivid descriptions of staggering natural wonders that no white man had ever seen. Here, too, is all the material that Coues added: chapter synopses; critical footnotes that clarify hundreds of obscure references, add important biological data, provide modern locations of camp and exploration sites, bring into account additional material from the manuscript journal, and correct countless errors; a bibliographical introduction; brief Memoirs of Clark and the expedition's sergeant, Patrick Gass; a modern map to supplement Lewis and Clark's originals; and a much-needed index.

Author : Meriwether Clark, William Lewis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734018121

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Clark, William Lewis Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark

Author : W. Raymond Wood
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806136898

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Prologue to Lewis and Clark by W. Raymond Wood Pdf

“To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795–97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has captured the American imagination more than the Missouri. . . . It is a river of promise, of dreams, and of dreams denied.” –James P. Ronda, from the Foreword When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as “the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent.” Ironically, though the findings of Mackay and Evans were responsible for much of the early success of Lewis and Clark in their expedition, the adulation that followed Lewis and Clark’s successful return completely eclipsed Mackay and Evans’s reputations. In Prologue to Lewis and Clark, W. Raymond Wood narrates the history of this long-forgotten but important expedition up the Missouri River. The Mackay and Evans expedition was more than an exploratory mission. It was the last effort by Spain to gain control over the Missouri River basin in the decade before the United States purchased the Louisiana territory. In that respect, it failed. But the expedition was successful as a journey of exploration. The maps and documents they created later provided the Lewis and Clark expedition with invaluable information for its first full year. Consolidating a collection of eighteen contemporary documents relating to the Mackay and Evans expedition as well as his own research and analysis, Wood provides an in-depth examination of the expedition’s background, execution, and final results. Volume 79 in the American Exploration and Travel Series

Author : John Bakeless
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486157054

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Lewis and Clark by John Bakeless Pdf

First authoritative biography of two great explorers, based on original research and diaries of expedition members. Danger, hardships, Indian customs and lore, much more. 29 illustrations. 7 maps.

Author : William Clark,Gary E. Moulton,Thomas W. Dunlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803280092

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The Definitive Journals of Lewis & Clark: From the Ohio to the Vermillion by William Clark,Gary E. Moulton,Thomas W. Dunlay Pdf

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804?6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West. This volume includes Lewis's and Clark's journals beginning in August 1803, when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down the Ohio River. The two men and several recruits camped near the mouth of the Missouri River for five months of training, acquiring supplies and equipment, and gathering information from travelers about the trip upriver. They started up the Missouri in May 1804. This volume ends in August, when the Corps of Discovery camped near the Vermillion River in present-day South Dakota.

Author : Peter F. Copeland,Coloring Books
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486245578

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book by Peter F. Copeland,Coloring Books Pdf

On May 14, 1804, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off to explore a vast wilderness of 825,000 square miles purchased from the French. 45 accurate, precisely rendered illustrations recapture highpoints of expedition.