The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark Jo Ann Trogdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trogdon, Jo Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clark, William, 1770-1838--Diaries.

Clark, William, 1770-1838--Travel--West (U.S.).

Explorers--West (U.S.)--Diaries.

Explorers.

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

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016

Summary:

In 1798--more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes--William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky, home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him a leather-trimmed journal to record his travels and notes on his activities. In this vivid history, Jo Ann Trogdon reveals William Clark's highly questionable activities during the years before his famous journey west of the Mississippi. Delving into the details of Clark's diary and ledger entries, Trogdon investigates evidence linking Clark to a series of plots--often called the Spanish Conspiracy--in which corrupt officials sought to line their pockets with Spanish money and to separate Kentucky from the United States. The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark gives readers a more complex portrait of the American icon than has been previously written.

Contents:

part I. A small adventure of tobacco, March 8 to April 23, 1798

part II. Important connections from New Orleans to Natchez and back again, April 24 to August 15, 1798

part III. The homeward journey, August 16 to December 24, 1798

part IV. More hardship and challenge, 1799 to 1807

Epilogue. The mammoth of iniquity escaped

So, did "nothing extraordinary" happen?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-451) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826273505

0826273505

OCLC:

966768837