Thomas Jefferson & the Rocky Mountains
Subtitle: Exploring the West from Monticello
Contributors: James P. Ronda (Foreword)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: March 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780806125046
Subjects: Biography: general; Colonization & independence; Geographical discovery & exploration; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; U.S. History - Revolution And Confederation (1775-1789); U.S. Local History - Western United States; History; History - U.S.; USA; Jefferson, Thomas,; United States - General; Jefferson, Thomas; Views on the West (U.S.); Books and reading; West (U.S.); Modern - 19th Century; 1743-1826; Description and travel
First sentence: Two French explorers had come south from their trading post on the Assiniboine River, in Canada, to travel in the country of the Mandans and other tribes of the upper Missouri.