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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

Autor Stephen E. Ambrose Barrett Whitener
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 31 mai 2008

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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River, across the forbidding Rockies, and -- by way of the Snake and mighty Columbia -- down to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, endured incredible hardships and witnessed astounding sights. With great perseverance, they worked their way into an unexplored West and when they returned two years later, they had long since been given up for dead.
Lewis is supported by a variety of colorful characters: Jefferson and his vision of the West; Clark, the artist and map-maker; and Lewis -- the enigma, who led brilliantly but considered the mission a failure. After suffering several periods of depression -- and despite his status as national hero -- Lewis died mysteriously, apparently by his own hand.
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ISBN-13: 9780743579292
ISBN-10: 0743579291
Dimensiuni: 130 x 152 x 56 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Unabridged
Editura: Simon & Schuster Audio

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Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History.

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'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians. Charismatic and brave, Lewis was the perfect choice and he experienced the savage North American continent before any other white man. UNDAUNTED COURAGE is the tale of a hero, but it is also a tragedy. Lewis may have received a hero's welcome on his return to Washington in 1806, but his discoveries did not match the president's fantasies of sweeping, fertile plains ripe for the taking. Feeling the expedition had been a failure, Lewis took to drink and piled up debts. Full of colourful characters - Jefferson, the president obsessed with conquering the west; William Clark, the rugged frontiersman; Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition; Drouillard, the French-Indian hunter - this is one of the great adventure stories of all time and it shot to the top of the US bestseller charts. Drama, suspense, danger and diplomacy combine with romance and personal tragedy making UNDAUNTED COURAGE an outstanding work of scholarship and a thrilling adventure.


Recenzii

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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Contents

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 Youth 1774-1792

2 Planter 1792-1794

3 Soldier 1794-1800

4 Thomas Jefferson's America 1801

5 The President's Secretary 1801-1802

6 The Origins of the Expedition 1750-1802

7 Preparing for the Expedition

January-June 1803

8 Washington to Pittsburgh

June-August 1803

9 Down the Ohio

September-November 1803

10 Up the Mississippi to Winter Camp

November 1803-March 1804

11 Ready to Depart

April-May 21, 1804

12 Up the Missouri

May-July 1804

13 Entering Indian Country

August 1804

14 Encounter with the Sioux

September 1804

15 To the Mandans

Fall 1804

16 Winter at Fort Mandan

December 21, 1804-March 21, 1805

17 Report from Fort Mandan

March 22-April 6, 1805

18 From Fort Mandan to Marias River

April 7-June 2, 1805

19 From Marias River to the Great Falls

June 3-June 20, 1805

20 The Great Portage

June 16-July 14, 805

21 Looking for the Shoshones

July 15-August 12, 1805

22 Over the Continental Divide

August 13-August 31, 1805

23 Lewis as Ethnographer: The Shoshones

24 Over the Bitterroots

September 1-October 6, 1805

25 Down the Columbia

October 8-December 7, 1805

26 Fort Clatsop

December 8, 1805-March 23, 1806

27 Lewis as Ethnographer: The

Clatsops and the Chinooks

28 Jefferson and the West

1804-1806

29 Return to the Nez Percé

March 23-June 9, 1806

30 The Lolo Trail

June I O-July 2, 1806

31 The Marias Exploration

July 3-July 28, 1806

32 The Last Leg

July 29-September 22, 1806

33 Reporting to the President

September 23-December 31, 1806

34 Washington

January-March 1807

35 Philadelphia

April-July 1807

36 Virginia

August 1806-March 1807

37 St. Louis

March-December 1808

38 St. Louis

January-August 1809

39 Last Voyage

September 3-October 11, 1809

40 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

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