The travels and adventures of Lewis and Clark have become immortalized as legend in the American memory. The Perilous West tells the riveting stories of seven equally fascinating and noteworthy American adventurers - Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion - and the unique legacies that their lionhearted spirits and monumental journeys left on America's landscape and history. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries, and forged the Oregon Trail: the path destined to link the…mehr
The travels and adventures of Lewis and Clark have become immortalized as legend in the American memory. The Perilous West tells the riveting stories of seven equally fascinating and noteworthy American adventurers - Ramsey Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion - and the unique legacies that their lionhearted spirits and monumental journeys left on America's landscape and history. These seven counted the Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries, and forged the Oregon Trail: the path destined to link the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and gold-seekers westward.
Larry E. Morris is the author of The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers after the Expedition, a History Book Club selection favorably reviewed by such publications as The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and The Missouri Historical Review. Morris is one of six authors whose work on Lewis and Clark is recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica. Choice named Fate an Outstanding Academic Title and said it "ranks among the best books in the crowded world of Lewis and Clark hagiography." In 2005, the Washington State Library selected thirty-three "essential core books about the expedition." That list included Fate, which, according to the WorldCat database, has been placed in more libraries than any of the other books except those by Ambrose, Bernard DeVoto, and Ken Burns. Morris is also the author of The Perilous West: Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail (given a Starred Review by Library Journal) and co-author of Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires: John Colter and the Mystery of Yellowstone (called a "definitive biography" by Booklist), both published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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Prologue: The Timely Arrival of This Poor Unfortunate Woman Chapter 1: I Shall Have Two Boats Well Manned and Armed Chapter 2: A Powerful Company Is Forming Chapter 3: Dissolved by Mutual Consent Chapter 4: We All Now Became Blind from the Reflection of the Sun's Rays Chapter 5: Whiskey Flowed Like Milk and Honey in the Land of Canaan Chapter 6: About Seventy Able Bodied Men, Nerved to Hardship Chapter 7: Families, Plantations, and All Vanished Chapter 8: A Very Sad Recollection Chapter 9: The Inscrutable Ways of Providence Epilogue: Desolation and Horror Stared Me in the Face Chronology
Prologue: The Timely Arrival of This Poor Unfortunate Woman Chapter 1: I Shall Have Two Boats Well Manned and Armed Chapter 2: A Powerful Company Is Forming Chapter 3: Dissolved by Mutual Consent Chapter 4: We All Now Became Blind from the Reflection of the Sun's Rays Chapter 5: Whiskey Flowed Like Milk and Honey in the Land of Canaan Chapter 6: About Seventy Able Bodied Men, Nerved to Hardship Chapter 7: Families, Plantations, and All Vanished Chapter 8: A Very Sad Recollection Chapter 9: The Inscrutable Ways of Providence Epilogue: Desolation and Horror Stared Me in the Face Chronology
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