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The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark /

In 1798--more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes--William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky, home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him a l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trogdon, Jo Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • part I. A small adventure of tobacco, March 8 to April 23, 1798
  • part II. Important connections from New Orleans to Natchez and back again, April 24 to August 15, 1798
  • part III. The homeward journey, August 16 to December 24, 1798
  • part IV. More hardship and challenge, 1799 to 1807
  • Epilogue. The mammoth of iniquity escaped
  • So, did "nothing extraordinary" happen?