Name: Travels of the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 3 Volume Set: Travels to the Source of the Missouri. Library Collection - North American History) (en Inglés)
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Author: Lewis, Meriwether ; Clark, Wiilliam ; Rees, Thomas
ISBN: 9781108023795

portada Travels of the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 3 Volume Set: Travels to the Source of the Missouri. Library Collection - North American History) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Meriwether Lewis

Wiilliam Clark

Ilustrado por

Thomas Rees

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

458

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.6 cm

Peso

0.58 kg.

ISBN

1108023797

ISBN13

9781108023795

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Biografías
Historia de américa

Travels of the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 3 Volume Set: Travels to the Source of the Missouri. Library Collection - North American History) (en Inglés)

Meriwether Lewis (Autor) · Wiilliam Clark (Autor) · Thomas Rees (Ilustrado por) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806 across America from Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the French in 1803, and the aim of the expedition was to investigate the territory involved. He commissioned a Corps of Discovery as a scientific and military expedition to survey the acquisition, appointing his aide Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) to lead it. It was hoped to discover that the Missouri and other rivers could be used for transcontinental communication and transport, and to assess the natural resources of the area. Some of the party returned east with specimens, reports and a map, while the remainder reached the Pacific in December 1805. Volume 2 covers the journey from Three Forks, Montana, the source of the Missouri, to the Pacific, and their winter quarters.