03308nam 2200709Ia 450 991096023150332120240418004037.09786613096197978128309619512830961969780300168556030016855110.12987/9780300168556(CKB)2670000000079617(EBL)3420651(OCoLC)923595565(SSID)ssj0000474471(PQKBManifestationID)12160500(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474471(PQKBWorkID)10454086(PQKB)11607352(MiAaPQ)EBC3420651(DE-B1597)486476(OCoLC)1024041505(DE-B1597)9780300168556(Au-PeEL)EBL3420651(CaPaEBR)ebr10451022(CaONFJC)MIL309619(Perlego)1089877(EXLCZ)99267000000007961720100625d2011 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrWilliam Clark's world describing America in an age of unknowns /Peter J. Kastor1st ed.New Haven [Conn.] Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (355 p.)The Lamar series in western historyDescription based upon print version of record.9780300139013 0300139012 Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-333) and index.Front matter --Contents --A Note on Terms --Introduction --Prologue --1. A Western Future --2. Three Treaties, One Nation --3. Expansion --4. Explorers --5. Careers --Books --7. Return to the West --8. Moving The Far West --Conclusion: A Western History --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments --IndexWilliam Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the West entered the American imagination. While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports, surveyed landscapes, and wrote journals that made sense of the West for a new nation fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark's World presents a new take on the manifest destiny narrative and on the way the West took shape in the national imagination in the early nineteenth century.Lamar series in western history.Description (Rhetoric)History19th centuryWest (U.S.)Description and travelDescription (Rhetoric)History978/.02Kastor Peter J1812971Powell Walter W.edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtSteinberg Richardedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960231503321William Clark's world4367402UNINA