The character of Meriwether Lewis : explorer in the wilderness : essays on one of the most remarkable men in American history / Clay S. Jenkinson.

This bold new study of the character of Meriwether Lewis attempts to make sense of one of the most fascinating and perplexing heroes of American history. Clay Jenkinson's Lewis is not a cheerful explorer in buckskins, but a complex, tightly-wound, ambitious and self-conscious man who led one of the...

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Main Author:	Jenkinson, Clay
Language:	English
Published:	Washburn, N.D. : [Norman] : Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation ; Distributed by The University of Oklahoma Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Lewis, Meriwether, > 1774-1809. Lewis and Clark Expedition > (1804-1806) Explorers > West (U.S.) > Biography. West (U.S.) > Description and travel. West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	xxxiv, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format:	Book