{"product_id":"the-journals-of-lewis-and-clark-9780395859964","title":"The Journals of Lewis and Clark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn in-depth look at Lewis and Clark's historic expedition through the explorers' journals--America's \"first report on the West\" (Bernard DeVoto, Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar-historian of the American West).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1803, the great expanse of the Louisiana Purchase was an empty canvas. Keenly aware that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward--and that a \"Voyage of Discovery\" would be necessary to determine the nature of the frontier--President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1804 to 1806, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, Lewis mapped rivers, traced the principal waterways to the sea, and established the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether the captains kept this journal: a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the native tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River, which has become an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevoto, Bernard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50609004118290,"sku":"9780395859964","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07e628a6-7daf-438e-9205-e90c7a26c0d1.jpg?v=1732327525","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-journals-of-lewis-and-clark-9780395859964","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}