Lewis, Meriwether

In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, at the request of President Jefferson and Congress, set out on an unprecedented two-year journey up the Missouri River and across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. The purpose was see how far it really was to the Pacific and also to map natural resources with a view towards expanding the United states. The nation did not expect them to return and when they did, the information they brought back helped persuade Congress that expansion was not only necessary, it was mandatory. Their journals present a portrait of the unspoiled American West as only members of the Corps of Discovery (as their expedition was called) saw it. This landmark edition corrects spelling and grammar, retaining essential text and making the journals easy to read.

An account of the historic expedition of Lewis and Clark across the American Northwest.

A condensation of the journals kept by Meriwether Lewis and his co-captain William Clark during their 1804-1806 expedition to explore America's newly acquired Louisiana territory, a mission that took them from the Missouri River near St. Louis, to the northern Pacific coast and back.

A one-volume abridgment of the twentyeight month wilderness journey of early American explorers Lewis and Clark.