Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail - 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 Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail write by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Lewis and Clark Companion
The Lewis and Clark Companion - 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 Companion write by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs. This book was released on 2015-06-09. The Lewis and Clark Companion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Or Perish in the Attempt
Or Perish in the Attempt - 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 Or Perish in the Attempt write by David J. Peck. This book was released on . Or Perish in the Attempt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
George Washington Is Cash Money
George Washington Is Cash Money - 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 George Washington Is Cash Money write by Cory O'Brien. This book was released on 2015-05-12. George Washington Is Cash Money available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Who Was Sacagawea?
Who Was Sacagawea? - 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 Who Was Sacagawea? write by Judith Bloom Fradin. This book was released on 2002-02-18. Who Was Sacagawea? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacagawea was only sixteen when she made one of the most remarkable journeys in American history, traveling 4500 miles by foot, canoe, and horse-all while carrying a baby on her back! Without her, the Lewis and Clark expedition might have failed. Through this engaging book, kids will understand the reasons that today, 200 years later, she is still remembered and immortalized on a golden dollar coin.
