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

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | October 1, 1997| | Copyright

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. BY STEPHEN E. AMBROSE. New York, London, and Toronto: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 511 pp. $27.95.

EXPANSIONIST Virginia's reconnaissance of North America took almost two centuries to complete. Acting on orders from President Thomas Jefferson, captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark fulfilled Captain John Smith's ambition of 1608 when they reached the Pacific Ocean in November of 1805. Like Smith's memoir of his Chesapeake survey, Lewis and Clark's saga included energetic, if sometimes misguided, ...

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