Title: In the wake of Lewis and Clark : the expedition and the making of antebellum America /
Authors: Morris, Larry E., 1951-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration.; United States History; United States History; United States; West United States
Abstract: "Western history expert Larry E. Morris traces the significant role that the sponsors and participants in the Lewis and Clark Expedition went on to play in Antebellum America and how the expedition shaped views of geography, trade, Indian relations, slavery, and became inexorably linked to the concept of Manifest Destiny"--
Contents: What will be the consequence? -- The most direct & practicable water communication across this continent -- We could always rely on their word! -- Let the north as well as the south be Jacksonized!!! -- Enterprising young men -- The march of over two thousand miles.