Author: Andy Russell Bowen
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761382569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In 1803, Meriwether Lewis was offered the chance of a lifetime. The president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, asked him to lead an expedition across North America, through the Louisiana Territory and Oregon Country to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis jumped at the opportunity and called on his friend William Clark to share in the command of the exploration. The two men organized a small unit of volunteers they called the Corps of Discovery. They had little idea of what dangers lay ahead in the mysterious lands. Would they be attacked by wild animals? Could they survive winter's harsh weather? On May 21, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition embarked on one of the greatest adventures of all time. they would change the country forever, as they traveled into the Back of Beyond.
The Back of Beyond
Author: Andy Russell Bowen
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761382569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In 1803, Meriwether Lewis was offered the chance of a lifetime. The president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, asked him to lead an expedition across North America, through the Louisiana Territory and Oregon Country to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis jumped at the opportunity and called on his friend William Clark to share in the command of the exploration. The two men organized a small unit of volunteers they called the Corps of Discovery. They had little idea of what dangers lay ahead in the mysterious lands. Would they be attacked by wild animals? Could they survive winter's harsh weather? On May 21, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition embarked on one of the greatest adventures of all time. they would change the country forever, as they traveled into the Back of Beyond.
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761382569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In 1803, Meriwether Lewis was offered the chance of a lifetime. The president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, asked him to lead an expedition across North America, through the Louisiana Territory and Oregon Country to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis jumped at the opportunity and called on his friend William Clark to share in the command of the exploration. The two men organized a small unit of volunteers they called the Corps of Discovery. They had little idea of what dangers lay ahead in the mysterious lands. Would they be attacked by wild animals? Could they survive winter's harsh weather? On May 21, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition embarked on one of the greatest adventures of all time. they would change the country forever, as they traveled into the Back of Beyond.
Lewis and Clark Trail Maps, a Cartographic Reconstruction
Author: Martin Plamondon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Beginning a short distance above Fort Mandan, 180 maps depict the explorers' route in 1805-06 on the Missouri River in North Dakota and Montana, over the continental divide to Idaho, and on westward-flowing waters to the Snake-Columbia confluence in central Washington. As in Volume I, the maps contrast modern riverbeds to their courses at the time of exploration.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Beginning a short distance above Fort Mandan, 180 maps depict the explorers' route in 1805-06 on the Missouri River in North Dakota and Montana, over the continental divide to Idaho, and on westward-flowing waters to the Snake-Columbia confluence in central Washington. As in Volume I, the maps contrast modern riverbeds to their courses at the time of exploration.
Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Journal of the West
Author: Lorrin L. Morrison
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Pacific Northwest Quarterly
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Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Category : Northwest, Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Base Line
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Category : Geographic information systems
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geographic information systems
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
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Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Current Geographical Publications
Author: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author:
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Publisher:
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Colonial Latin American Historical Review
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Category : Latin America
Languages : es
Pages : 524
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Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : es
Pages : 524
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