03075cam a2200325 4500 654148933 TxAuBib 20230214120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781439126172 1439126178 B00AK78P8W Amazon 7ce3044e-e49d-45e6-b42b-b97d2357f0c0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1291159 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage [Bridges eBook] : Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening. Simon & Schuster, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>From the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Band of Brothers</i> and <i>D-Day</i>, 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.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-02-13 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/undaunted-courage?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/undaunted-courage?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/undaunted-courage?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)