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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a private on the Lewis and Clark expedition, which entailed such tasks as spending two months building a fort in the middle of winter and carrying canoes and supplies over land to circumvent a waterfall.
Author
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and 33 adventurers to explore the vast land west of the Mississippi River that he had purchased from France. This play tells the journey of these brave explorers.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
"The story of the Lewis and Clark expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?" "The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the Corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the Corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form - from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic coast to claiming land as far west as present-day Montana. The U.S. government knew little about the terrain there. Was there a water route to the Pacific? President Thomas Jefferson sent William Clark and Meriwether Lewis to find out. With nothing to guide them but a compass, what would Lewis and Clark...
13) The great expedition of Lewis and Clark: by Private Reubin Field, member of the Corps of Discovery
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
An account, told in the words of one participant, of the difficulties and wonders that were part of the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the land obtained as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Two Centuries Ago, an American epic unfolded as Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the natural wonders, and encountered the peoples of western North America. Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. The heroism of the men of the Corps of Discovery and of Sacagawea, the Shoshone interpreter...
16) I am Sacagawea
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who served as a translator for the Lewis and Clark Expedition."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Introduces historical archaeology, discusses important archeological finds from settlements in the western part of North America, and explains how archaeologists dig in the ground and examine artifacts in order to understand the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"...Introduces the youngest readers to Sacagawea--the 15-year-old American Indian who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the wilderness of the western United States."--Page 4 of cover.
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