The companion volume to Ken Burns's PBS documentary film, with more than 150 illustrations, most in full color. See website at www.pbs.org/lewisandclark.

In Search of York removes many of the fallacies surrounding York and pinpoints the important role he played in the success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Through painstaking research and the synthesis of all the available information known about York, Betts exposes the impact of racial prejudice on historical interpretation. Neither the hero that a few romantic chroniclers have drawn nor the buffoon of many accounts tainted with racism, Betts' York emerges as a believable human being touching both the heights and depths of the world he lived in.

Pictures, period illustrations, and maps adorn the pages of Ambrose's coffee-table record of the Lewis & Clark expedition. Contains Sam Abell's outstanding photography.

Relates the experiences of a German prince (Maximillian), his servant (Dreidoppel), and a young Swiss artist (Bodmer) as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.

With richly illustrated gatefolds, annotated topographical maps, and pictorial timelines of the Expedition, The Saga of Lewis & Clark: Into the Uncharted West stands out as the classic account and visual presentation of America's greatest quest. Having recently retraced the same routes charted by the nineteenth-century explorers, authors and brother Thomas and Jeremy Schmidt share a passion for the land that brings the experience of discovery and adventure to life.

This book provides an account of the expedition from Western Montana to the Pacific Coast. It uses selections from the expedition's journals, this book focuses on Native peoples; archaeological observations; and studies of birds, plants, and wildlife.

Voyages of Discovery includes seminal primary source documents and essays that illuminate the origins, voyage, and aftermath of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. W.W.II historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he was able to capture this passion, successfully conveying it to countless readers across the country. .

How Lewis & Clark's epic journey of 1804-06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. Includes 45 maps.

Investigates the process of discovery itself and shows how the information gathered by Lewis and Clark on their expeditions challenged the science, the politics, and the artistic ideals of the Jerrersonian age and helped shape the way we see America.

Lewis and Clark is a stunningly illustrated volume of the classic American history of two visionaries and their troops, who braved the unknown to find a way overland to the Pacific. Filled with fascinating excerpts from the journals of the men on the trip, Lewis and Clark brings alive the danger and excitement of this journey into virgin territory. Glorious color photographs reveal the land the Corps of Discovery passed through, while historical maps, drawn by members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, detail the terrain.*

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A reprint of a book relating the medical history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The author, a physician himself, explores the medical milieu of the early 19th century, focusing on medicine as it was practiced in the Army, among Native Americans, and on the frontier. Particular attention is given to the practice of bloodletting by doctors. Preparations for the expedition and the journey itself are then covered in detail, with an emphasis on illnesses and injuries that expedition members suffered along the way and how they were treated. Originally published in 1979 by the Arthur H. Clark Company (Glendale, California).
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The suicide of Meriwether Lewis has always been one of the more tragic and interesting mysteries of American history. Clay Jenkinson, in this book on the character of Lewis, is witty, profound, insightful, and highly readable. We learn about Lewis' interest in food, his views on Indians and women, his longing for an important place in history, his drinking and most importantly, his view of himself. We see the Expedition through the unedited writings of Lewis himself and through Clay Jenkinson's perspective on what those writings reveal.