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Undaunted courage : (Record no. 30261)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 95037146
015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
National bibliography number GB96-26512
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0684811073 (hc)
International Standard Book Number 9780684811079 (hc)
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Language of cataloging eng
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Geographic area code n-usp--
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number F592.7
Item number .A49 1996
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 917.804/2
Edition number 20
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 15.85
Source of number bcl
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 12748
Personal name Ambrose, Stephen E.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Undaunted courage :
Remainder of title Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West /
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 511 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions 25 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-496) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Youth,1774-1792 -- Planter,1792-1794 -- Soldier,1794-1800 -- Thomas Jefferson's America,1801 -- The President's Secretary,1801-1802 -- The origins of the expedition,1750-1802 -- Preparing for the expedition, January-June 1803 -- Washington to Pittsburgh, June-August 1803 -- Down the Ohio, September-November 1803 -- Up the Mississippi to winter camp, November 1803-March 1804 -- Ready to depart, April- May 21,1804 -- Up the Missouri, May- July 1804 -- Entering Indian Country, August 1804 -- Encounter with Sioux, September 1804 -- To the Mandans, Fall 1804 -- Winter at Fort Mandan, December 21, 1804- March 21, 1805 -- Report from Fort Mandan, March 22-April 6, 1805 -- From Fort Mandan to Marias River, April 7-June 2, 1805 -- From Marias River to the Great Falls, June 3-June 20, 1805 -- The Great Portage, June 16-July 14, 1805 -- Looking for the Shoshones, July 15-August 12, 1805 -- Over the Continental Divide: August 13-August 31, 1805 -- Over the Bitterroots: September 1-October 6, 1805 -- Down the Columbia: October 8-December 7, 1805 -- Fort Clatsop: December 8, 1805-March 23, 1806 -- Jefferson and the West: 1804-1806 -- Return to the Nez Perc�e: March 23-June 9, 1806 -- The Lolo Trail: June 10-July 2, 1806 -- The Marias Exploration: July 3-July 28, 1806 -- The Last Leg: July 29-September 22, 1806 -- Reporting to the President: September 23-December 31, 1806 -- Washington: January-March 1807 -- Philadelphia: April-July 1807 -- Virginia: August 1806-March 1807 -- St. Louis: March-December 1808 -- St. Louis: January-August 1809 -- Last Voyage: September 3-October 11, 1809.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Though primarily a biography of Meriwether Lewis, this book also provides fascinating sketches of Thomas Jefferson, William Clark, Sacagawea, & other contemporaries. From the bestselling author of the definitive book on D-Day comes the definitive book on the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He endured incredible hardships and saw incredible sights, including vast herds of buffalo and Indian tribes that had had no previous contact with white men. He and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a colorful and realistic backdrop for the expedition. Lewis saw the North American continent before any other white man; Ambrose describes in detail native peoples, weather, landscape, science, everything the expedition encountered along the way, through Lewis's eyes. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson's. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. This is a book about a hero. This is a book about national unity. But it is also a tragedy. When Lewis returned to Washington in the fall of 1806, he was a national hero. But for Lewis, the expedition was a failure. Jefferson had hoped to find an all-water route to the Pacific with a short hop over the Rockies-Lewis discovered there was no such passage. Jefferson hoped the Louisiana Purchase would provide endless land to support farming-but Lewis discovered that the Great Plains were too dry. Jefferson hoped there was a river flowing from Canada into the Missouri-but Lewis reported there was no such river, and thus no U.S. claim to the Canadian prairie. Lewis discovered the Plains Indians were hostile and would block settlement and trade up the Missouri. Lewis took to drink, engaged in land speculation, piled up debts he could not pay, made jealous political enemies, and suffered severe depression. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.
586 ## - AWARDS NOTE
Awards note Mountains & Plains Book Award, 1997.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lewis, Meriwether,
Dates associated with a name 1774-1809.
9 (RLIN) 7124
Personal name Clark, William,
Dates associated with a name 1770-1838.
9 (RLIN) 7125
Personal name Jefferson, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1743-1826.
9 (RLIN) 7114
Personal name Clark, William,
Dates associated with a name b. 1770.
9 (RLIN) 50312
Personal name Lewis, Meriweather,
Dates associated with a name 1774-1809.
9 (RLIN) 50313
Personal name Clark, William,
Dates associated with a name (1770-1838)
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 137082
Personal name Jefferson, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name (1743-1826)
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 137083
Personal name Lewis, Meriwether,
Dates associated with a name (1774-1809)
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 137084
Personal name Jefferson, Thomas
Chronological subdivision 1743-1826.
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50314
Personal name Clark, William,
Dates associated with a name 1770-1838.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 7125
Personal name Jefferson, Thomas,
Dates associated with a name 1743-1826.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 7114
Personal name Lewis, Meriwether,
Dates associated with a name 1774-1809.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 7124
610 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Lewis and Clark Expedition
Date of meeting or treaty signing (1804-1806)
9 (RLIN) 50315
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806)
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50316
611 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--MEETING NAME
Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element Lewis and Clark Expedition
Date of meeting (1804-1806)
9 (RLIN) 50317
Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 50318
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Explorers
Geographic subdivision United States
Form subdivision Biography.
9 (RLIN) 50319
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ontdekkingsreizen.
Source of heading or term gtt
9 (RLIN) 50320
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Lewis and Clark expedition (1804-1806)
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50321
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Explorateurs
Geographic subdivision �Etats-Unis
General subdivision Histoire
Chronological subdivision 1789-1815.
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50322
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Lewis and Clark Expedition
Chronological subdivision 1804-1806.
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50323
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Explorers.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 4792
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name �Etats-Unis (ouest)
General subdivision D�ecouverte et exploration
Chronological subdivision 1789-1815.
Source of heading or term ram
9 (RLIN) 50324
Geographic name United States.
Source of heading or term fast
9 (RLIN) 4709
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Genre/form data or focus term Biography.
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