Lewis & Clark Reframed

Examining Ties to Cook, Vancouver, and Mackenzie

David L. Nicandri (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2020
Washington State University Press (Verlag)
9780874223804 (ISBN)

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Spanish, British, and French explorers reached the Pacific Northwest before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The American captains benefited from those predecessors, even carrying with them copies of their published accounts. James Cook, George Vancouver, and Alexander Mackenzie--and to a lesser extent fur traders John Meares and Robert Gray--directly and indirectly influenced the expedition. Based on new material as well as revised essays from popular history journals, Lewis and Clark Reframed examines several curious and seemingly inexplicable aspects of the journey after the Corps of Discovery crossed the Rocky Mountains.The captains' journals demonstrate that they relied on Mackenzie's 1801 Voyages from Montreal as a trail guide. They borrowed field techniques and favorite literary expressions--at times plagiarizing entire paragraphs. Cook's literature also informed the pair, and his naming conventions evoke fresh ideas about an enduring expedition mystery--the identity of the two or three journalists whose records are now missing. Additional journal text analysis dispels the notion that the captains were equals, despite expedition lore. Lewis claimed all the epochal discoveries for himself, and in one of his more memorable passages, drew on Mackenzie for inspiration. Parallels between Cook's and other exploratory accounts offer evidence that like many long-distance voyagers, Lewis grappled with homesickness. His friendship with Mahlon Dickerson lends insights into Lewis's shortcomings and eventual undoing. As secretary of the navy, Dickerson drew from Lewis's troubled past to impede the 1840s ocean expedition set to emulate Cook and solidify America's claim, through Lewis and Clark, to the region.

Former Washington State Historical Society Director David L. Nicandri is an expert in Pacific Northwest exploration history. His epilogue presents further opportunities to place the Lewis and Clark story and the Enlightenment era into historical context. Nicandri is the author of River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia and co-editor of two volumes on Captain James Cook. Nationally recognized historian, author, and public humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson writes books, portrays historical characters, appears in documentaries, edits the journal We Proceeded On, hosts the nationally syndicated Thomas Jefferson Hour, and serves as an editor-at-large for online journal Governing.com.

Foreword by Clay S. JenkinsonPreface

Chapter 1.Lewis and Clark in the Age of Cook

Chapter 2. Exploring under the Influence of Alexander Mackenzie

Chapter 3. The Rhyme of the Great Navigator: The Literature of Captain Cook and Its Influences on the Journals of Lewis and Clark

Chapter 4. The Missing Journals: Some Clues on the Upper Missouri

Chapter 5. The Illusion of Cape Disappointment

Chapter 6. Meriwether Lewis: The Solitary Hero

Chapter 7. Pure Water: Lewis's Homesickness at Fort Clatsop

Chapter 8. Lewis's "dear friend" Mahlon Dickerson and the Fate of Early Nineteenth-Century

American Exploration

Epilogue. Whither the Exploration of Lewis and Clark: Recent Trends and Future Directions

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2020
Vorwort	Clay S. Jenkinson
Verlagsort	Pullman, WA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-13	9780874223804 / 9780874223804
Zustand	Neuware