Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening Cover
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Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

Stephen E. Ambrose

From the In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map...

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The MeatEater Podcast

This widely read book on the Lewis and Clark expedition was praised for its engaging style, though it also faced criticism for its assumptions and reliance on other historians' work. The author's voice is strongly present in the writing, making it a distinctive read.

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I've read references here and there that, you know, it's acknowledged that no one has gotten the movie right. You know what I mean?

— Episode: Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis an...

Episode: Ep. 346: Sex and Suicide on the Lewis and Clark Ex...

This widely read book on the Lewis and Clark expedition was praised for its engaging style, though it also faced criticism for its assumptions and reliance on other historians' work. The author's voice is strongly present in the writing, making it a distinctive read.

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I've read references here and there that, you know, it's acknowledged that no one has gotten the movie right. You know what I mean?

I know that HBO was working on it for a long time. They were going to do a kind of a mini series and that, that fell by the wayside.

Undaunted courage. Uh, I heard Steven Ambrose speak several times before he passed away and, and he always talked about how when he first, uh, went to his publisher and said, well, I'd like to do something on Lewis and Clark.

And, uh, his publisher said, well, you know, very reluctantly said, well, how about if we start with 500,000 copies? And, uh, Ambrose said 500,000 copies. I hope more gets sold than that.

by 2001, 3 million copies had been sold.

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