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Explorers Lewis & Clark's Chronicles; Prologue to Departing Fort Mandan (The Lewis and Clark Chronicles Book 1)
Joseph Groth
ASIN: B00F0VLO6S
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 26

These Chronicles could have been authored by Thomas Jefferson had he been so inclined to do so. He and Captain Meriwether Lewis spent long nights tracing its daily record of "Courses & Distances" onto brown paper on the floor of the East Wing of the White House. After Lewis's untimely death, Jefferson instead relegated the job to Captain William Clark. As a result, the narrative of the expedition has, until now, never been told as Captain Meriwether Lewis intended it to be. The author discovered these Chronicles in transcribing the original handwritten journals. He has edited and annotated them to include brief biographical sketches of the members of the expedition, background information regarding the Native American tribes they encountered, and the current place names of the geographical landmarks the Captains named in honor of members of their party. (Sadly, none of them remain named ...
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