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Lewis and Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Captains Meriwether Lewis & William Clark is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the PREFACE (not included in this shortened version of the journals): "These journals are a national literary treasure. Lewis and Clark's exploration of the western two thirds of the continent was our epic voyage, their account of it is our epic poem. Sitting before the nightly campfire, using a quill pen that had to be dipped into the inkwell every other word, balancing their leather-covered journals on their knees, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark described the day's events, as well as the land and its people and its flora and fauna, in a prose remarkable for its verve, sharp imagery, tension, and immediacy. Reading the journals puts you in the canoe with them. You trek the Lolo Trail and winter over in North Dakota and at the mouth of the Columbia River. You see the country through their eyes. It unfolds before you the lower Missouri, the Great Bend, the junction with the Yellowstone, the White Cliffs and the Missouri River Breaks, the Great Falls, the Three Forks, Lemhi Pass, the Columbia Gorge, and on to the Pacific with a vividness enhanced by the knowledge that you're seeing with the eyes of the first literate men to view these sights. You and the captains ar

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Author

Captains Meriwether Lewis & William Clark

Publisher

ReaderWorks Standard

Published

1804

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities