PATHFINDERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST: THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS & CLARK
Written by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Frank Bergon
Published by Folio Society
in 2000
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PATHFINDERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST: THE JOURNALS OF LEWIS & CLARK
Written by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Frank Bergon.
Stock no. 1830266
1st thus.
2000.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Edited and Introduced by Frank Bergon. Green pictorial cloth. Endpapers are maps of the Journey 1804-06. Colour plates. Top edge grey. lvi and 506 pages including index. Top of inner spine has come away from outer spine (quite usual for Folio Society items). Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is just a little scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- Pathfinders of the American West
- Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis
- Clark's Questions Concerning Indians of the West
- Lewis's Estimate of Expenses, 1803
- Articles Purchased for the Expedition
- The Journals of Lewis & Clark
- 1 Up the Missouri
- 2 Meeting the Lakota
- 3 Winter Among the Mandan
- 4 The Great Unknown
- 5 The Thundering Falls
- 6 In Search of the Shoshone
- 7 Across the Great Divide
- 8 Down the Rapids
- 9 Winter at Fort Clatsop
- 10 The Start for Home
- 11 Lewis's Shortcut
- 12 The Homstretch
- Index