Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition write by Thomas Power Lowry. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the greatest challenges faced by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on their 1804?6 Corps of Discovery expedition was that of medical emergencies on the trail. Without an attending physician, even routine ailments and injuries could have tragic consequences for the expedition?s success and the safety of its members. Of these dangers, the most insidious and potentially devastating was the slow, painful, and oftentimes fatal ravage of venereal disease. ø Physician Thomas P. Lowry delves into the world of nineteenth-century medicine, uncovering the expedition?s very real fear of venereal disease. Lewis and Clark knew they were unlikely to prevent their men from forming sexual liaisons on the trail, so they prepared for the consequences of encounters with potentially infected people, as well as the consequences of preexisting disease, by stocking themselves with medicine and the latest scientific knowledge from the best minds in America. Lewis and Clark?s expedition encountered Native peoples who experienced venereal disease as a result of liaisons with French, British, Spanish, and Canadian travelers and had their own methods for curing its victims, or at least for easing the pain it inflicted. ø Lowry?s careful study of the explorers? journals sheds new light on this neglected aspect of the expedition, showing in detail how sex and venereal disease affected the men and their mission, and describes how diverse peoples faced a common threat with the best knowledge and tools at their disposal.
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Exploring Lewis and Clark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring Lewis and Clark write by Thomas P. Slaughter. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Exploring Lewis and Clark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones into historical focus. Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers’ dreams, how they wrote and what they aimed to possess, their interactions with animals, Indians, and each other, their sense of themselves as leaders and men, and why they feared that they had failed their nation and President. Slaughter’s Lewis and Clark are more confused, frightened, courageous, and flawed than in previous accounts. They are more human, their expedition more dramatic, and thus their story is more revealing about our own relationships to history and myth.
Lewis and Clark and Me
Lewis and Clark and Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lewis and Clark and Me write by Laurie Myers. This book was released on 2002-08. Lewis and Clark and Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
The Lewis and Clark Journals
The Lewis and Clark Journals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lewis and Clark Journals write by Gary E. Moulton. This book was released on 2003. The Lewis and Clark Journals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery
Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery write by Rod Gragg. This book was released on 2003. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few events in American history have shaped the nation like the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It opened the American West for settlement. It redrew the map of the United States. It identified an array of native peoples, spectacular places, fascinating creatures, and extraordinary flora unknown in "civilized" America. It defined the American nation as a land stretching from coast to coast-and it launched the spread of population in a mighty frontier migration unlike anything ever witnessed in America before or since. Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery contains 19 chapters, detailing the expedition chronologically. A "museum in a book," this fascinating volume contains re-creations of original documents such as diary entries, letters, maps, and sketches-all meticulously reproduced so that the reader can actually handle and examine them. Among the documents included in the book are: The actual letter of credit Jefferson wrote to Lewis committing the U.S. government to pay for the expedition. The code Thomas Jefferson provided to Lewis for sending secret messages. Clark's sketch of the technique some Indians used to flatten their heads, a sign of prestige. Clark's letter of gratitude to Sacagawea, a Shoshone teenager who helped the expedition. A newspaper account of the expedition's return to St. Louis.
