The Geography and Map Division
Author | : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Meriwether Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Columbia River |
ISBN | : |
Lewis and Clark's Expedition from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was the first governmental exploration of the "Great West." The history of this undertaking is the personal narrative and official report of the first white men who crossed the continent between and British and Spanish possessions.
Author | : Meriwether Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Columbia River |
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Author | : Thomas Power Lowry |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803229593 |
One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.
Author | : Rod Gragg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Lewis and Clark Expedition |
ISBN | : 9781401600754 |
Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in "civilized" America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast-and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A "museum in a book," this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches-all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them. Among the documents included in the book are: The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition. The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages. Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige. Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition. A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.
Author | : Meriwether Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Columbia River |
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Author | : Kris Fresonke |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2004-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520937147 |
Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the occasion of its bicentennial, considers the impact of their westward expedition on American culture. Approaching their subject from many different perspectives—literature, history, women's studies, law, medicine, and environmental history, among others—the authors chart shifting attitudes about the explorers and their journals, together creating a compelling, finely detailed picture of the "interdisciplinary intrigue" that has always surrounded Lewis and Clark's accomplishment. This collection is most remarkable for its insights into ongoing debates over the relationships between settler culture and aboriginal peoples, law and land tenure, manifest destiny and westward expansion, as well as over the character of Sacagawea, the expedition's vision of nature, and the interpretation and preservation of the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Author | : Annie Heloise Abel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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Author | : Wayne Phillips |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Annotation Amateur naturalists and those interested in Lewis and Clark's epic trip will enjoy this beautifully illustrated, informative guide to the wildflowers, trees, and plants they would have encountered. Arranged by region, the entry for each plant includes an excerpt (when it exists) from the explorers' journals, as well as information about the plant, its flowers and fruits, season, and range. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author | : James Harlan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic government information |
ISBN | : 9780826214737 |
The Atlas of Lewis and Clark in Missouri is a splendid re- creation of the natural landscape in the days when a vast western frontier was about to be explored. The Corps of Discovery's expedition began in territorial Missouri, and this book of computer-generated maps opens an extraordinary window onto the rivers, land, and settlement patterns of the period. This book is an intensive examination of the Missouri portion of the expedition through a series of twenty-seven maps developed by combining early-nineteenth-century U.S. General Land Office (GLO) survey documents with narratives of the trip derived from expedition journals. The maps are impeccable. The twenty-seven map plates--including twenty-three of the traveled route and four of the river corridor's historic vegetative land cover--depict the expedition's course and offer the first accurate rendering of travel distances and campsites. Some maps locate the campsites in relation to present-day landmarks. Journal descriptions accompany the map plates, which also include old geographic names; historical hydrography; contemporary towns, settlements, and forts; Indian campsites and villages; and territorial land grants from the French and Spanish governments. Geographers and historians will be fascinated by the maps' level of detail, especially the charting of the present course of the rivers alongside that of the early 1800s to show the landscape changes caused by the powerful waters of the Mississippi and Missouri. The result is a reconstruction of geo-referenced maps that give, for the first time, a detailed representation of the Corps of Discovery's course through Missouri, with geographic data as authentic and accurate as yesterday's available information and today's technology can produce. The maps allow readers to better understand changes in the land over time and why the landscape encountered by the expedition differs so radically from ours today.