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Lewis and Clark Summary
3,399 words, approx. 11 pages Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark shared leadership responsibilities on the expedition and worked so close in harmony that history almost considers them one. They combined their skills, frontier experience, and resourcefulness to accomplish their large...
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American Far West: the Lewis and Clark Expedition Summary
1,717 words, approx. 6 pages One of the greatest feats of exploration in North America was that undertaken by Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from 1804-1806. During their travels, the Corps of Discovery explored the Mississippi and Missouri river basins, made...
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Information
3,177 words, approx. 11 pages
 The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and...




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 Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
The Lewis and Clark expedition
03/24/2004: 1,071 words, approx. 4 pages Miller, Robert J. Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 03-24-2004 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark rank high in the pantheon of American folk heroes. Even today, at the 200-year commemoration of their expedition, Lewis and Clark are viewed as brave adventurers who went where...
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 Montana; The Magazine of Western History
Venereal Disease And The Lewis And Clark Expedition
01/01/2005: 488 words, approx. 2 pages VENEREAL DISEASE AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Thomas P. Lowry University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, 2004. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index, xvii + 117 pp. $21.95 cloth. Lewis and Clark fans know the clever Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson. One...
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Idaho Hosts Final Lewis & Clark Event
6/14/2006: 493 words, approx. 2 pages During their return trip from the Pacific Ocean, members of the Lewis and Clark expedition spent nearly a month rejuvenating themselves among the Nez Perce Tribe. That time will be commemorated starting Wednesday at the Summer of Peace, one of...
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U.S. gov't to release new dollar coins
2/11/2007: 295 words, approx. 1 pages Two recent efforts to promote wide usage of a dollar coin proved unsuccessful. But maybe Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea should not take public rejection personally. It's not easy overcoming people's indifference to dollar coins, even those honoring such historic figures.An AP-Ipsos poll found that...




Literary Criticism
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Excerpt by Gary E. Moulton
16,333 words, approx. 54 pages
 In the following excerpt, Moulton examines in detail how and by what methods Lewis and Clark chronicled their expedition. Moulton focuses in particular on whether or not the captains wrote continuously throughout the duration of the expedition or whether they wrote the majority of the text after the expedition was complete.
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Critical Essay by Bernard DeVoto
15,711 words, approx. 52 pages
 In the following essay, DeVoto offers a comprehensive survey of the political and historical state of affairs both before and during the expedition, and provides a detailed overview of the expedition itself—noting its objectives, its major finds and contributions, as well as its principal players.
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Critical Essay by Frank Bergon
14,573 words, approx. 49 pages
 In the following essay, Bergon considers the Lewis and Clark journals as characteristic of early American nature writing.
Featured Essays
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The Voyage West
2,194 words, approx. 7 pages
 Lewis and Clark had been the first American citizens to cross the continent. They mapped it and described their findings, including its inhabitants, human, botanical, and animal. They were the first white men to travel to the Northwest and established an American claim on what would later become Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
1,625 words, approx. 5 pages
 Provides a history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Recounts the Louisiana purchase by Thomas Jefferson and his desire to have the unknown land explored. Details the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Lewis and Clark
1,507 words, approx. 5 pages
 Essay is about the trail taken by Lewis and Clark to get to the Pacific Ocean.


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Lewis and Clark Expedition by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | |
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