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In the Wake of Lewis and Clark
- The Expedition and the Making of Antebellum America
Engelsk Hardback
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- The Expedition and the Making of Antebellum America
Engelsk Hardback

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In this book, Larry E. Morris complements the compelling story he began with The Fate of Corps, named a History Book Club selection and a Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title. Illustrating how Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a sea-to-sea empire gave rise to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Morris in turn shows how the expedition impacted a host of fascinating individuals: John Colter, the first European to see Yellowstone, who helped William Clark create his master map of the West; John Jacob Astor, the prominent fur-trade entrepreneur who launched the second American trek to the Pacific; Ramsay Crooks, an “Astorian” adventurer present for the discovery of the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass who later became one of the most important merchants in the history of the fur trade; Thomas Hart Benton, a North Carolina native who went west after nearly killing Andrew Jackson in a gunfight and became the US Senate’s most powerful voice for Western expansion—and the father-in-law of “the Pathfinder,” John C. Fremont; and General Stephen Watts Kearny, whose conquest of California during the Mexican War fulfilled Jefferson’s vision of a nation that spanned the continent.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9781442266100
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1442266104
Udg. Dato:
28 dec 2018
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
28 dec 2018
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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