The fate of the corps [[electronic resource] ] : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition / / Larry E. Morris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452343203321
• Autore: Morris Larry E. <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-281-72248-0; 9786611722487; 0-300-13024-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 917.804/2
• Soggetti: Explorers - West (U.S.); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Chronology -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. "We Descended with Great Velocity" -- Chapter 2. "All the Red Men Are My Children" -- Chapter 3. "They Appeared in Violent Rage" -- Chapter 4. "He Saw the Prairie Behind Him Covered with Indians in Full and Rapid Chase" -- Chapter 5. "This Has Not Been Done Through Malice" -- Chapter 6. "The Gloomy and Savage Wilderness" -- Chapter 7. "I Give and Recommend My Soul" -- Chapter 8. "A Sincere and Undisguised Heart" -- Chapter 9. "He Must Have Fought in a Circle on Horseback" -- Chapter 10. "Water as High as the Trees" -- Chapter 11. "She Was a Good and the Best Woman in the Fort" -- Chapter 12. "The Crisis Is Fast Approaching" -- Chapter 13. "We Lost in All Fourteen Killed" -- Chapter 14. "Taken with the Cholera in Tennessee and Died" -- Chapter 15. "Men on Lewis & Clark's Trip" -- Chapter 16. "Active to the Last" -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over? The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the ; nation they helped to form-from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Some of the expedition members went on to hold public office; two were charged with murder. Many of the explorers could not resist the call of the wild, and continued to adventure forth into America's western frontier. Engagingly written and based on exhaustive research, The Fate of the Corps chronicles the lives of the fascinating men (and one woman) who opened the American West.