Seeking Western Waters: The Lewis and Clark Trail from the Rockies to the Pacific - Softcover

Strong, Emory M.; Strong, Ruth; Beals, H. K.; Lewis, Meriwether

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875952453 ISBN 13: 9780875952451

Publisher: Oregon Historical Society Pr, 1995

Synopsis

From 1804-1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark conducted one of the best managed, most successful explorations in history. With President Thomas Jefferson's instructions to examine the recently bought Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery set out on a peaceful expedition that was unparalleled in the information it brought back to the rest of the United States.
Emory Strong and Ruth Beacon Strong have used excerpts from the Reuben Thwaites edition of the Lewis and Clark journals that focus on the native population the Corps of Discovery came in contact with on their journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Following their journey from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean, the Strongs supplied this book with over 200 photographs, many of them sites that have been since consumed by geological, riverine or human forces.
Herbert K. Beals, a historian of maritime explorations of the Northwest Coast and a friend of the Strongs has augmented this posthumous work with more recent, updated research.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Strong was a teacher and avocational botanist. Emory Strong was a mechanical engineer and amateur archaeologist and prehistorian. Herbert K. Beals is a historian of maritime explorations of the Northwest Coast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oregon Historical Society Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0875952453
• ISBN 13: 9780875952451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400