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Undaunted Courage

Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Paperback | 2 June 1997

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, 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 and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific 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 vivid backdrop for the expedition. 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 rugged frontiersman 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 Drouillard, the great naturalists 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 turn of the century.

High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.

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Ken Burns Stephen Ambrose is that rare breed: a historian with true passion for his subject. Here he takes one of the great, but also one of the most superficially considered, stories in American history and breathes fresh life into it. Lewis comes alive as we've never known him.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Geographical Discovery & Exploration Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Youth 1774-1792
Planter 1792-1794
Soldier 1794-1800
Thomas Jefferson's America 1801
The President's Secretary 1801-1802
The Origins of the Expedition 1750-1802
Preparing for the ExpeditionJanuary-June 1803
Washington to PittsburghJune-August 1803
Down the OhioSeptember-November 1803
Up the Mississippi to Winter CampNovember 1803-March 1804
Ready to DepartApril-May 21, 1804
Up the MissouriMay-July1804
Entering Indian CountryAugust 1804
Encounter with the SiouxSeptember 1804
To the MandansFall 1804
Winter at Fort MandanDecember 21, 1804-March 21, 1805
Report from Fort MandanMarch 22-April 6, 1805
From Fort Mandan to Marias RiverApril 7-June 2, 1805
From Marias River to the Great FallsJune 3-June 20, 1805
The Great PortageJune 16-July 14, 805
Looking for the ShoshonesJuly 15-August 12, 1805
Over the Continental DivideAugust 13-August 31, 1805
Lewis as Ethnographer: The Shoshones
Over the BitterrootsSeptember 1-October 6, 1805
Down the ColumbiaOctober 8-December 7, 1805
Fort ClatsopDecember 8, 1805-March 23, 1806
Lewis as Ethnographer: TheClatsops and the Chinooks
Jefferson and the West1804-1806
Return to the Nez PercéMarch 23-June 9, 1806
The Lolo TrailJune I O-July 2, 1806
The Marias ExplorationJuly 3-July 28, 1806
The Last LegJuly 29-September 22, 1806
Reporting to the PresidentSeptember 23-December 31, 1806
WashingtonJanuary-March 1807
PhiladelphiaApril-July 1807
VirginiaAugust 1806-March 1807
St. LouisMarch-December 1808
St. LouisJanuary-August 1809
Last VoyageSeptember 3-October 11, 1809
Aftermath
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Maps
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Up the Missouri
Headwaters of the Missouri
Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains
Exploring the Mouth of the Columbia
Traveler's Rest
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Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

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