The Lewis and Clark Expedition Author:Richard L. Neuberger, Winold Reiss (Illustrator) What lay west of St. Louis? In the year 1804, nobody knew. Of course, there were guess and rumors and wild tales. The West was alive with terrible monsters! It was dotted with rock-salt mountains where nothing could grow! It was people with fierce Indians! — President Thomas Jefferson would have none of these tales. He wanted true information abo... more »ut the West -- and there was only one way to get it. He would send men to explore "the interior parts of North America."
To lead the expedition, the President cose his secretary, Meriwether Lewis. Captain William Clark was to share the responsibilities of the journey.
This was to be a truly American Adventure, for many races and nationalities would be represented. There were Germans, Irishmen, Scots, Frenchmen, Northerners, Southerners, rich, poor..Besides the white men there was York, a blakc man, who provided physical strength equivalent to two of any of the other members of the group. And, eventually, Sacajawea, the Indian "Bird Woman," who repeatedly saved the expedition from life-threatening difficulties.
Richard Neuberger here retells, in lively prose, the story of the expedition thatmost people though would shurely fail. How it succeeded, depsite every dnager, makes a spine-tingling tale for all Americans.« less