- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), Explorers, Biography, New York Times reviewed
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Stephen E. Ambrose
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 521
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Perfection Learning, San Val
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847397638
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“From the west-facing window of the room in which Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774, one could look out at Rockfish Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, an opening to the West that invited exploration.”
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many best selling volumes of American popular history. **Source**: [Stephen E. Ambrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose) on Wikipedia.
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