Beyond the stony mountains [electronic resource] : nature in the American west from Lewis and Clark to today / Daniel B. Botkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botkin, Daniel B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806).

Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Natural history--West (U.S.).

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 284 p. ) ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

"America's great epic of exploration - the journey of Lewis and Clark - was also one of the most successful scientific expeditions in history." "In this illustrated volume, which features more than one hundred photographs and maps, most in full color, noted ecologist and writer Daniel Botkin traces the footsteps of the two explorers as they journeyed from St. Louis, through the breathtaking vistas of the tall-grass prairie and Big Sky country, over the arduous Bitterroot Mountains on the ancient Lolo Trail, to arrive finally at the Pacific coast and its rugged, rainy, and darkly wooded landscape."--Jacket.

Contents:

Partially settled landscape : Lewis and Clark near St. Louis

Changing old river

Countryside pleasant, rich, and partially settled : through the eastern woodlands

Into the tall-grass prairie

Restoring the lower Missouri River

Fire, wind, and water : the Platte River and the Loess Hills within the prairies

Winter on the plains : Lewis and Clark among the Mandans

America's Serengeti

Scenes of visionary enchantment : the upper Missouri

"Pleasingly beautiful" and "sublimely grand" : pathways to the mountains

Passage steep and stoney, strewn with fallen timber : the Bitterroot Mountains

Roll on, Columbia, roll on : down the Snake and Columbia Rivers

Changing old forests at the mouth of the Columbia

In the wake of Lewis and Clark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-19684-3

9786611196844

0-19-803680-9

1-4294-6210-8