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

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson chosen his private secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to steer a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and again. Lewis and his accomplice, Captain William Clark, made the primary map of the trans-Mississippi West, offered invaluable scientific knowledge on the natural world of the Louisiana Buy territory, and established the American declare to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Ambrose has pieced collectively beforehand unknown details about climate, terrain, and medical information on the time to supply a vivid backdrop for the expedition. Lewis is supported by a wealthy number of colourful characters, to start with Jefferson himself, whose curiosity in exploring and buying the American West went again thirty years. Subsequent comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson’s. There are quite a few Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian woman who accompanied the expedition, together with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the good naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur merchants of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and plenty of extra main political, scientific, and army figures of the flip of the century.

Excessive journey, excessive politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy mix with excessive romance and private tragedy to make this excellent work of scholarship as readable as a novel.