Journals of Lewis and Clark (Penguin Classics)

Journals of Lewis and Clark (Penguin Classics)In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blanknot only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nations destiny lay westward and that a national Voyage of Discovery must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an

and medical knowledge at the time to provide a vivid backdrop for the expedition

and what they thought of the explorers from the east

The quills have been cleaned

DVD Length: 60 minutes

need-to-know information about parks

Sacajawea’s own people—had been removed from their homeland nearly a hundred years earlier and had yet to regain official federal recognition as a tribe

This is a distressed (worn-aged)

guidance on how to ethically harvest

calligraphy

espontoons

Porcupine Quill Breastplate Necklace

brief biographies of Expedition members