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Book

Author:

Title:

Lewis & Clark : an illustrated history / by Dayton Duncan, based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ... ; preface by Ken Burns and contributions by Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, William Least Heat-Moon.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publisher, Date:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Description:

[1], xix, [1], 248, [2] pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, color maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Summary:

An illustrated history of the journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who set out from a camp just upstream from St. Louis in 1804 at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, to search for the fabled Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean.

Subjects:

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.

Clark, William, 1770-1838.

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) -- Pictorial works.

West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.

Other Author:

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Heat Moon, William Least.

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Funkhouser, Erica.

Other Title:

At head of title: Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Lewis and Clark

Lewis & Clark : the journey of the Corps of Discovery (Television series)

Notes:

Companion volume to the PBS TV series: Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239) and index.

Contents:

Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser -- See our parents once more -- Done for posterity -- We proceeded on / D. Duncan.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

LCCN:

97073823

ISBN:

0679454500

9780679454502

0679454500

Other Number:

37704535

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

662834

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

917.804 Duncan