The Louisiana Purchase
This volume written by James E. Lewis, Jr. offers a thoughtful understanding of a complex moment in American history.
"Your proposition respecting a tour to the west and North west of the Continent would be Extremely agreable to me ..."
"...of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness & perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from it’s direction..."
This volume written by James E. Lewis, Jr. offers a thoughtful understanding of a complex moment in American history.
Historian James P. Ronda retells this compelling part of the American story by contrasting Thomas Jefferson expectations for the expedition with what Clark and Lewis actually experienced.
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