William Clark's world : describing America in an age of unknowns / Peter J. Kastor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kastor, Peter J.

Contributor:

Powell, Walter W., Editor.

Steinberg, Richard, Editor.

Series:

Lamar series in western history.

The Lamar series in western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clark, William, 1770-1838.

Clark, William.

Description (Rhetoric)--History--19th century.

Description (Rhetoric).

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the West entered the American imagination. While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports, surveyed landscapes, and wrote journals that made sense of the West for a new nation fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark's World presents a new take on the manifest destiny narrative and on the way the West took shape in the national imagination in the early nineteenth century.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

A Note on Terms

Introduction

Prologue

1. A Western Future

2. Three Treaties, One Nation

3. Expansion

4. Explorers

5. Careers

Books

7. Return to the West

8. Moving The Far West

Conclusion: A Western History

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-333) and index.

ISBN:

9786613096197

9781283096195

1283096196

9780300168556

0300168551

OCLC:

923595565