Our Natural History The Lessons of Lewis and Clark

Name: Our Natural History The Lessons of Lewis and Clark
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ISBN: 9780195168297

ISBN-10: 0195168291

ISBN-13: 9780195168297

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel B. Botkin

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Often referred to as America's national epic of exploration, the 28-month Lewis and Clark expedition was certainly America's greatest odyssey. Commissioned in 1804 by Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off on the greatest wilderness trip ever recorded. Beginning in St. Louis, they navigated up the Missouri River and through the prairies, enduring a winter with the Mandan Indians in North Dakota, reaching the summit of the Rocky Mountains and then following the Columbia River to their final destination, the Pacific Ocean. Trained in natural history and in the methods of collecting plant and animal samples, Lewis and Clark carefully and meticulously recorded the…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



A Road Through the Wilderness



Meanders: Nature and the Missouri River



Wet and Dry Mud



Thirty-Seven Grizzly Bears in the Wilderness



A Measured Journey



Buffalo and Winter on the Plains: Technology Meets Wilderness



Wolves, People, and Biological Diversity



Through the Mountains



Down the Columbia



Winter and Wood on the Pacific Coast



The Return Through Prairie Country


Afterword


Notes


Index