Why Sacagawea Deserves The Day Off And Other Lessons From The Lewis And Clark Trail

Author : Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803219288
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail written by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred years later, the voyage of discovery with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery continues to draw us along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs first fell under the trail s spell at sixteen and has been following in Lewis and Clark s path ever since. In essays historical and personal, she revisits the Lewis and Clark Trail and its famous people, landmarks, and events, exploring questions the expedition continues to raise, such as, What really motivated Thomas Jefferson to send out his agents of discovery? What mutinous expressions were uttered? What happened to the dog? Why did Meriwether Lewis end his own life? In the resulting trip through history, Tubbs recounts her travels along the trail by foot, Volkswagen bus, and canoe at every turn renewing the American experience inscribed by Lewis and Clark.

Author : Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 162779669X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lewis and Clark Companion written by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable guide to our nation's epic adventure The years 2003-2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named scores of places and rivers, met with many Native American tribes, and wrote the first descriptions of heretofore unknown plants and animals. By the end of their trip, Lewis and Clark had navigated and named two thirds of the American continent. They may have had undaunted courage, but the sheer volume of information related to their expedition can be more than a little daunting to the armchair historian. Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains over five hundred lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition and the places they went to the weapons and tools, trade goods, and medicines they carried, along with the food and amusements that sustained them. Highly readable and informative, it's the perfect introduction for the Lewis and Clark novice, and the comprehensive guide no buff will want to be without. "This handy volume, timed for publication as the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition opens, has the virtue of teaching the student while helpfully reminding the scholar. " - Publishers Weekly

Author : David J. Peck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803240597
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Or Perish in the Attempt written by David J. Peck and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David J. Peck?s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed, but the author patiently, expertly?and humorously?guides us through the medical travails of the famous journey, juxtaposing treatment then against remedy now. The result is a fascinating book that sheds new light not only on Lewis and Clark and the men and one remarkable woman (and her infant) who accompanied them along an eight-thousand-mile wilderness path but also on the practice of medicine in their time and place.

Author : Cory O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698186702
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Washington Is Cash Money written by Cory O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREPARE TO BE BEAKED BY THE MAJESTIC EAGLE OF HISTORY Most of us are familiar with the greatest hits and legendary heroes of US history. In George Washington Is Cash Money, Cory O’Brien, author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, does away with the pomp and circumstance and calls America’s history what it is: one long, violent soap opera. In his signature clever, crude, and cuss-ridden style, O’Brien reminds us that: · Teddy Roosevelt stopped bullets with his manly chest · Harriet Tubman avoided danger by having prophetic seizures. · Joseph Smith invented Mormonism by staring into a hat full of rocks. · Billy the Kid was finally defeated by the smell of fresh bacon. And there’s plenty more Star Spangled stupidity where that came from.

Author : Meriwether Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803229501
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lewis and Clark Journals written by Meriwether Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries and personal accounts of William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, and other members of their expedition chronicle their epic journey across North America in search of a river passage to the Pacific Ocean and describe their encounters with the Native American peoples of the West, exotic flora and fauna, and amazing natural wonders.

Author : William Clark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803228757
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book August 25, 1804 - April 6, 1805 written by William Clark and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabrielle Burton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803224435
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Tamsen Donner written by Gabrielle Burton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamsen Donner. For most the name conjures the ill-fated Donner party trapped in the snows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1846–47. Others might know Tamsen as the stoic pioneer woman who saw her children to safety but stayed with her dying husband at the cost of her own life. For Gabrielle Burton, Tamsen’s story, fascinating in its own right, had long seemed something more: the story of a woman’s life writ large, one whose impossible balancing of self, motherhood, and marriage spoke to Burton’s own experience. This book tells of Burton’s search to solve the mystery of Tamsen Donner for herself. A graceful mingling of history and memoir, Searching for Tamsen Donner follows Burton and her husband, with their five daughters, on her journey along Tamsen’s path. From Tamsen’s birthplace in Massachusetts to North Carolina, where she lost her first family in the space of three months; to Illinois, where she married George Donner; and finally to the fateful Oregon Trail, Burton recovers one woman’s compelling history through a modern-day family’s adventure into realms of ultimately timeless experiences. Here Burton has for the first time collected and published together all seventeen of Tamsen’s known letters.

Author : Dennis B. Fradin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0448424851
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who was Sacagawea? written by Dennis B. Fradin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of a brave woman and explorer who helped Lewis and Clark on the expedition.

Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803290195
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis and Clark Among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition) written by James P. Ronda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences.OCo"Choice""

Author : Anna L. Waldo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062035916
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacajawea written by Anna L. Waldo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation. She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story over flows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years in the writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion -- and always it lay beyond the next mountain.