The Essential Lewis and Clark

Landon Y. Jones

Harper Collins, Mar 19, 2002 - History - 224 pages

The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. Through these tales of adventure, edited and annotated by American Book Award nominee Landon Jones, we meet Indian peoples and see the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and western rivers the way Lewis and Clark first observed them -- majestic, pristine, uncharted, and awe-inspiring.

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User Review  - deldevries - LibraryThing

This is an important part of our American history. Traveling up the Missouri was the "easy" part of the trip, but even more than 200 years later I think it would be quite an adventure. Of course ...

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User Review  - buffalogr - LibraryThing

This is a book of "distilled" journals from the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806. Since it's extracted, it's very abbreviated and, supposedly, the boring parts are left out. I discovered a few ...

Contents

• VOLUME TWO: 42
• VOLUME THREE: 105
• VOLUME FOUR: 140
• VOLUME FIVE: 154
• Lewiss Shortcut to the Missouri and Exploration of Marias River: 168
• Clarks Exploration of the Yellowstone: 181
• Letter from Lewis to Jefferson: 198

About the author

Landon Y. Jones is the author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation. He has reported, written, and edited at Life, Time, Money, and People magazines. He is a member of the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Essential Lewis and Clark; Lewis & Clark Expedition
• Author: Landon Y. Jones
• Edition: reprint, annotated
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2002
• ISBN: 0060011599, 9780060011598
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)