Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
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1996
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| adam_text | From the bestselling author of the definitive book
on D-Day comes the definitive book on the most
momentous expedition in American history and one of
the great adventure stories of all time.
In
1803
President Thomas Jefferson selected his
personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a
voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the
mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific
Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He
endured incredible hardships and saw incredible sights,
including vast herds of buffalo and Indian tribes that
had had no previous contact with white men. He and his
partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of
the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scien¬
tific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana
Purchase territory, and established the American claim
to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced
together previously unknown information about weather,
terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a
colorful and realistic backdrop for the expedition. Lewis
saw the North American continent before any other white
man; Ambrose describes in detail native peoples,
weather, landscape, science, everything the expedition
encountered along the way, through Lewis s eyes.
Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful
characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest
in exploring and acquiring the American West went
back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a ragged fron¬
tiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson s.
There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the
Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along
with the French-Indian hunter
Brouillard,
the great nat¬
uralists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur
traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many
more leading political, scientific, and military figures
of the
tum
of the century.
This is a book about a hero. This is a book about
national unity. But it is also a tragedy. When Lewis
returned to Washington in the fall of
1806,
he was a
national hero. But for Lewis, the expedition was a fail¬
ure. Jefferson had hoped to find an all-water route to the
Pacific with a short hop over the Rockies
—
Lewis dis¬
covered there was no such passage. Jefferson hoped the
Louisiana Purchase would provide endless land to sup¬
port farming
—
but Lewis discovered that the Great
Plains were too dry. Jefferson hoped there was a river
flowing from Canada into the Missouri
—
but Lewis
reported there was no such river, and thus no U.S. claim
to the Canadian prairie. Lewis discovered the Plains
Indians were hostile and would block settlement and
trade up the Missouri. Lewis took to drink, engaged in
land speculation, piled up debts he could not pay, made
jealous political enemies, and suffered severe depression.
High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama,
and diplomacy combine with high romance and per¬
sonal tragedy to make this outstanding work of schol¬
arship as readable as a novel.
Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of numerous
books, including the New York Times bestseller D-Day
and
multivolume
biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Richard Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower
Center and President of the National D-Day Museum in
New Orleans. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi,
and Helena, Montana.
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