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Author
Series
Arcane America volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. In America, magic works. It is 1803, and Meriwether Lewis is attending a talk by Benjamin Franklin when it is disrupted by the attack of a winged fire-breathing beast. Franklin tells Lewis of a great, growing evil that lurks in the uncharted Arcane Territories west of the Mississippi, and commissions...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?
The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form-from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad....
Publisher
National Geographic Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Relive an amazing tale of discovery and exploration as National Geographic brings to life the first crossing. Two hundred years after Lewis & Clark epic journey, go back in time and discover the adventure, danger, and beauty of the unmapped West.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.
Author
Publisher
PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Meriwether Lewis was selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. It was speculated...
13) The Lewis and Clark Expedition: a primary source history of the journey of the Corps of Discovery
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines the events and key figures behind the incredibly adventurous and treacherous exploration of the United States' western frontier.
Author
Publisher
The Dakota Institute Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.
At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the...
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the spring of 1804 as they set out to explore the Louisiana Purchase. Includes highlights and directions to historical points of interest.
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