Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West ( ISBN 0684811073 ), written by Stephen Ambrose , is a 1996 biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition . The book is based on journals and letters written by Lewis, William Clark , Thomas Jefferson and the members of the Corps of Discovery . While most of the book is dedicated to the expedition, several chapters are also devoted to Lewis's early life as a Virginia planter and Jefferson's personal secretary, and his later life as governor of the Louisiana Territory before his untimely death in 1809.
5-407: The book outlines the expedition in detail including the route, interactions with Native Americans, scientific discoveries, wildlife , and landscape. As a biography, the book is focused entirely on Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea and the others are addressed principally in their interactions with Lewis. The expedition, and Lewis' life as a whole, is placed within the broader context of Jefferson's presidency,
10-653: The Lewis and Clark Expedition Meriwether Lewis collected many hundreds of plants on the Lewis and Clark Expedition . All of the plants Lewis collected in the first months of the Expedition were cached near the Missouri River to be retrieved on the return journey. The cache was completely destroyed by Missouri flood waters. Other collections were lost in varying ways, and we now have only 237 plants Lewis collected, 226 of which are in
15-476: The Philadelphia Herbarium. Lewis hired Frederick Pursh for $ 70 to do the complex task of describing 124 of his collections, which Pursh did and published in 1814. The plants listed below were indeed collected by Lewis, but a number of them (at least those marked with *******, were previously collected and described or were not described from the Lewis collections and therefore are not considered to be
20-666: The opening of the American west, and early Indian Policy. The text is supplemented by maps and illustrations, including some drawn by Lewis himself. The book was number 1 New York Times Bestseller in 1996. In May 2014, HBO announced plans to produce a six-part miniseries based on the book titled Lewis and Clark . It starred Casey Affleck as Meriwether Lewis, Matthias Schoenaerts as William Clark, and Tanaya Beatty as Sacagawea , with Tom Hanks , Brad Pitt , and Edward Norton as executive producers. Filming began in Manitoba during
25-485: The summer of 2015. However, production was halted the following August after director John Curran and cinematographer Rob Hardy left the project due to creative differences. In February 2016, HBO shut down production on the series. This article about a biographical or autobiographical book published in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of species described by
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