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Relates events from the childhood and youth of the boy who grew up to become an explorer of the American West.
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1 (1946)
Describes the Corps of Discovery's expedition to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
When President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their great exploratory expedition of the lands west of the Mississippi, the journey was destined to become the most famous and significant American land expedition in history. Jefferson must have realized the timeless importance of the mission, for he urged the captains to keep multiple records of all they saw and experienced during the journey. Those records, dutifully kept from the departure of the expedition in 1803 to its conclusion in 1806, provided invaluable information about the wonders of the American West. In the next 150 years the journals were published in several versions scrupulously auth...