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    Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
    Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
    Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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    Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark

    By Peter Roop, Connie Roop and Tim Tanner

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    A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People: The tale of the famous expedition of Lewis and Clark, condensed from their own eight-volume journals for young historians

    Lewis and Clark’s famous 1804 expedition was told with great detail by the explorers themselves in an eight-volume account. Now young historians have the opportunity to learn the thrills, challenges, and adventures in a version accessible for them. Two years’ worth of entries are condensed into a flowing account that maintains the historical essence of the original.
     
    With a fact-filled prologue and epilogue, young readers can relive the adventurous eight-thousand-mile journey across uncharted wilderness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781504010153
    Off the Map: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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    Tim Tanner

    Tim Tanner restored his first ca 1870s home in 1988, and has been involved in restoration and reproduction projects using reclaimed materials ever since then. He is an artist in and around Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and is on the faculty at Brigham Young University Idaho, where he teaches Art and Design.

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      Off the Map - Peter Roop

      PROLOGUE

      In 1803 the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, or less than three cents an acre. This huge new addition, stretching north from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Canada and west from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, doubled the size of the United States. President Thomas Jefferson decided to send an expedition up the Missouri River to map this region, meet with the numerous Indian tribes living there, examine the animals and plants, and find a route to the Pacific Ocean. Thus the stage was set for one of the most famous expeditions in American history.

      Jefferson had carefully groomed Meriwether Lewis to lead this Corps of Discovery. Lewis, knowing he needed a dependable cocaptain, asked his old friend William Clark to accompany him. Clark gladly agreed and helped choose the 29 men needed to man the boats, men capable of enduring months of intensive labor and hardship. Tons of supplies necessary for a lengthy expedition into the unknown were selected: canned food, medicine, presents for the Indians, guns, bullets, scientific equipment, and hundreds of other items impossible to get in the wilderness.

      So it was on May 14, 1804, that the three boats, manned by the robust, healthy, hardy young men of the Corps of Discovery, proceeded on under a gentle breeze up the Missouri and into history.

      To record this momentous journey, President Jefferson requested that Lewis and Clark keep journals. Both men kept separate journals in the event one might be lost or destroyed. Many times, however, they combined their journal entries in an effort to save time and energy. When first published, The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ran to eight volumes, including one containing only maps.

      This book, compiled from those journals, tells the story of the incredible journey of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

      To Meriwether Lewis:

      The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct and practicable water-communication across the continent for the purpose of commerce.

      Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude, at all remarkable points on the river. Your observations are to be taken with great pains and accuracy. Several copies of these should be made at leisure times.

      Objects worthy of notice will be: the soil and face of the country, the animals, the mineral productions of every kind, and the climate.

      You will make yourself acquainted with the names of the [Indian] nations and their numbers; the extent of their possessions; their relations with other tribes or nations; their language

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