Undaunted Courage
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Undaunted Courage

Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

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eBook - ePub

Undaunted Courage

Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780684826974
eBook ISBN
9781439126172
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Maps
  5. Introduction
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: Youth 1774–1792
  8. Chapter 2: Planter 1792–1794
  9. Chapter 3: Soldier 1794–1800
  10. Chapter 4: Thomas Jefferson’s America 1801
  11. Chapter 5: The President’s Secretary 1801–1802
  12. Chapter 6: The Origins of the Expedition 1750–1802
  13. Chapter 7: Preparing for the Expedition: January–June 1803
  14. Chapter 8: Washington to Pittsburgh: June–August 1803
  15. Chapter 9: Down the Ohio: September–November 1803
  16. Chapter 10: Up the Mississippi to Winter Camp: November 1803–March 1804
  17. Chapter 11: Ready to Depart: April–May 21, 1804
  18. Chapter 12: Up the Missouri: May–July 1804
  19. Chapter 13: Entering Indian Country: August 1804
  20. Chapter 14: Encounter with the Sioux: September 1804
  21. Chapter 15: To the Mandans: Fall 1804
  22. Chapter 16: Winter at Fort Mandan: December 21, 1804–March 21, 1805
  23. Chapter 17: Report from Fort Mandan: March 22–April 6, 1805
  24. Chapter 18: From Fort Mandan to Marias River: April 7–June 2, 1805
  25. Chapter 19: From Marias River to the Great Falls: June 3–June 20, 1805
  26. Chapter 20: The Great Portage: June 16–July 14, 1805
  27. Chapter 21: Looking for the Shoshones: July 15–August 12, 1805
  28. Chapter 22: Over the Continental Divide: August 13–August 31, 1805
  29. Chapter 23: Lewis as Ethnographer: The Shoshones
  30. Chapter 24: Over the Bitterroots: September 1–October 6, 1805
  31. Chapter 25: Down the Columbia: October 8–December 7, 1805
  32. Chapter 26: Fort Clatsop: December 8, 1805–March 23, 1806
  33. Chapter 27: Lewis as Ethnographer: The Clatsops and the Chinooks
  34. Chapter 28: Jefferson and the West: 1804–1806
  35. Chapter 29: Return to the Nez PercĂ©: March 23–June 9, 1806
  36. Chapter 30: The Lolo Trail: June 10–July 2, 1806
  37. Chapter 31: The Marias Exploration: July 3–July 28, 1806
  38. Chapter 32: The Last Leg: July 29–September 22, 1806
  39. Chapter 33: Reporting to the President: September 23–December 31, 1806
  40. Chapter 34: Washington: January–March 1807
  41. Chapter 35: Philadelphia: April–July 1807
  42. Chapter 36: Virginia: August 1806–March 1807
  43. Chapter 37: St. Louis: March–December 1808
  44. Chapter 38: St. Louis: January–August 1809
  45. Chapter 39: Last Voyage: September 3–October 11, 1809
  46. Chapter 40: Aftermath
  47. Notes
  48. Bibliography
  49. Index
  50. Copyright