Title: The shortest and most convenient route : Lewis and Clark in context /
Authors: Cox, Robert S., 1958-
Publisher: American Philosophical Society,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Explorers West (U.S.) Congresses.; West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration Congresses.; West (U.S.) Description and travel Congresses.
Contents: Reading the Corps of Discovery backwards : the metropolitan context of Lewis and Clark's expedition / Domenic Vitiello -- Philanthropic enterprise : the imperial contradictions of republican political economy in Philadelphia during the era of Lewis and Clark / S.D. Kimmel -- "I never yet parted" : Bernard McMahon and the seeds of the corps of discovery / Robert S. Cox -- "Mineral productions of every kind" : geological observations in the Lewis and Clark journals and the role of Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society in the geological mentoring of Merriwether Lewis -- Displaying the expanding nation to itself : the cultural work of public exhibitions of western fauna in Lewis and Clark's Philadelphia -- Nineteenth-century scientific opinion of Lewis and Clark / Andrew J. Lewis.