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Westward whoa : in the wake of Lewis and Clark by W. Hodding Carter IV is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
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One hundred and ninety years after Lewis and Clark failed to discover the Northwest Passage, W. Hodding Carter and Preston Maybank set out upstream at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, destined to repeat history. Westward Whoa is the rollicking account of this modern-day remounting of the great expedition across the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and on to the Pacific Ocean. Armed with just the bare essentials (freeze-dried dinners, a small library of outdoor-survival manuals, one credit card), they traveled by raft, on foot and on horseback in the manner of their legendary precursors. Okay, they did have a small outboard motor and resorted to renting a car in a moment of desperation, but apart from those transgressions, the trip was strictly roughing it by the book. Of course, Carter and Maybank faced hazards of another, more contemporary order: a sea of Styrofoam cups, the Army Corps of Engineers, pathological liars, alcoholic mountainmen, and lonely teenage girls...all sought to impede their progress. Wilderness may be in retreat, but it's still wild out there. Could Meriwether Lewis and William Clark have handled an entire state populated with men in c
Who reads Westward whoa : in the wake of Lewis and Clark?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- W. Hodding Carter IV
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671798918
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Humor, Travel
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14