Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 284 pages)
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illustrations, map
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300102658
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0300130244
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9780300102659
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9780300130249
Inhalt:
"She was a good and the best woman in the Fort" Sacagawea's death -- "The crisis is fast approaching" The Corps and the War of 1812 -- "We lost in all fourteen killed" John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau among the mountain men -- "Taken with the cholera in Tennessee and died" The sad fate of York -- "Men on Lewis & Clark's trip" William Clark's accounting of Expedition members -- "Active to the last" The final decades of the Corps -- Appendix A. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Appendix B. The death of Meriwether Lewis -- Appendix C. The Sacagawea controversy
Inhalt:
Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson -- "They appeared in violent rage" Pryor and Shannon's battle with the Arikara -- "He saw the prairie behind him covered with Indians in full and rapid chase" The adventures of John Colter -- "This has not been done through malice" George Drouillard's murder trial -- "The gloomy and savage wilderness" The mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis -- "I give and recommend my soul" The deaths of George Gibson, Jean-Baptiste Lepage, and John Shields -- "A sincere and undisguised heart" George Shannon's early career -- "He must have fought in a circle on horseback" George Drouillard's death at the hands of the Blackfeet -- "Water as high as the trees" William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0300102658
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300102659
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Morris, Larry E., 1951- Fate of the corps New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2004
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Biography
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