![]() The book focuses on Meriwether Lewis from his early life as a southern slave-owning planter to his last years as the alcoholic governor of the Louisiana Territory. ![]() Although the term Manifest Destiny had not yet been coined, Jefferson certainly believed in the concept it was the old story of the “inevitable white man” overrunning everything and everyone in his path. First of all, in the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson arranged for the purchase of all this land from France for the United States, entirely discounting the fact that the land was already occupied by indigenous peoples. However, after I had finished the book and had a chance to think about it, I realized that despite the thrilling story, the journey itself occurred under very strange circumstances. It all makes for exciting, compelling reading. They endured amazing hardships on their journey of almost two and a half years. Louis up the Missouri River, across the Bitterroot Mountains, and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean and back, the expedition wrote journals, drew maps, encountered several Native American tribes, and cataloged and described new flora and fauna. ![]() Almost the entire area was a blank spot on maps. ![]() Lewis and Clark and their small team headed off into territory unknown to the citizens of the United States, the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, which almost doubled the size of the country. I bought this book because I wanted to read about exploration and adventure, and there is plenty of that in it. ![]()
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