The character of Meriwether Lewis : explorer in the wilderness : essays on one of the most remarkable men in American history /
This bold new study of the character of Meriwether Lewis attempts to make sense of one of the most fascinating and perplexing heroes of American history. Clay Jenkinson's Lewis is not a cheerful explorer in buckskins, but a complex, tightly-wound, ambitious and self-conscious man who led one of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washburn, N.D. :
Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation ;
[2011]
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| Summary: | This bold new study of the character of Meriwether Lewis attempts to make sense of one of the most fascinating and perplexing heroes of American history. Clay Jenkinson's Lewis is not a cheerful explorer in buckskins, but a complex, tightly-wound, ambitious and self-conscious man who led one of the great adventures in American history, but had severe re-entry problems and never wrote the book that would have served as the capstone of his explorations. |
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| Item Description: | LC copy signed by author. |
| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 456 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-442) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780982559727 0982559720 9780982559734 0982559739 |