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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is a book by C. S. Lewis, published posthumously in 1964. [1] The book takes the form of a series of letters to a fictional friend, "Malcolm", in which Lewis meditates on prayer as an intimate dialogue between man and God.
Patrick Gass (June 12, 1771 – April 2, 1870) served as sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). He was important to the expedition because of his service as a carpenter, and he published the first journal of the expedition in 1807, seven years before the first publication based on Lewis and Clark's journals.
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.
Fielding's Lewis and Clark Trail. Fielding Travel Books. [7] Rodger, Tod (2000). Bicycle Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail. Harvard, MA: Deerfoot Publications. ISBN 0-9704027-0-8. [8] Russell, Steve F. (2007). Lewis and Clark Across the Mountains: Mapping the Corps of Discovery in Idaho. Boise, ID: Idaho State Historical Society Press.
Concomly met Lewis and Clark in 1805 who awarded him with peace medals. [ 5 ] [ 3 ] He assisted the Pacific Fur Company , also known as the Astor Expedition in the early 1810s, and offered to help the Americans fight the British during the War of 1812 , but Astoria, Oregon was sold to the British instead. [ 3 ]
The foundations for the Corps of Discovery were laid when Thomas Jefferson met John Ledyard to discuss a proposed expedition to the Pacific Northwest in the 1780s. [2] [3] In 1802, Jefferson read Alexander Mackenzie's 1801 book about his 1792–1793 overland expedition across Canada to the Pacific Ocean; these exploratory journals influenced his decision to create an American body capable of ...
After the Lewis and Clark expedition set off in May, the Spanish sent four armed expeditions of 52 soldiers, mercenaries [further explanation needed], and Native Americans on August 1, 1804, from Santa Fe, New Mexico northward under Pedro Vial and José Jarvet to intercept Lewis and Clark and imprison the entire expedition.
In December 1803 the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition started construction of Camp Dubois, also known as Camp Wood, [6] their winter camp of 1803–1804. [7] Located next to the Mississippi River , and at the mouth of Wood River , the camp was in what was then St. Clair County, now Madison County, Illinois.