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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jenkinson, Clay (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washburn, N.D. : Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation ; [2011]
Subjects:	Lewis, Meriwether, > 1774-1809. Lewis and Clark Expedition > (1804-1806) Lewis, Meriwether > 1774-1809 Lewis, Meriwether. Explorers > West (U.S.) > Biography. West (U.S.) > Description and travel. West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration. États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages. Discoveries in geography. Explorers. Travel. West United States. Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition Psychographie Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition. Psychographie. Geschichte 1804-1806. Biography Biographies.

Table of Contents:

Fractured soul
Getting there first
Meriwether Lewis's bad day
Map
Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries
Damn you: Lewis and Clark at the confluence
Map
The character of Meriwether Lewis: Paintings by Michael Haynes
The problem of silence
Timeline
What a falling off was there
Map
Why?