Del Norte Public Library

Examines the events and key figures behind the incredibly adventurous and treacherous exploration of the United States' western frontier.

In 1804, President Jefferson ordered an expedition led by two brave men, Lewis and Clark, to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. They were to take notes of everything they saw and encountered along the way.

Describes the expedition led by Lewis and Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Describes the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the unknown western regions of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Includes facsimiles of journal entries, maps, and letters inserted in folders and under flaps.

Having covered the Civil War and baseball in masterly documentaries, filmmaker Burns has now prepared a documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Duncan (Out West, Doubleday, 1996) wrote the script for the film and this companion volume, which tells the story of that epic journey in a straightforward manner. The challenge in both film and book is to tell a familiar tale in a new way. The authors meet that challenge by retracing the expedition's...

While writing a biography of his famous namesake, Bill Lewis, a high-school history teacher, nearly loses himself in his attempts to understand one of the great untold stories in American history the adventures and subsequent suicide of Meriwether Lewis. Even as he struggles to illuminate that strange and exuberant time and falls under the spell of the elusively seductive persona of Capt. Lewis, Bill finds himself fighting his own personal crisis,...

Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.

A one-volume abridgment of the twenty-eight month wilderness journey of early American explorers Lewis and Clark.