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Summary: Four years after the Revolutionary War, America's independence was still in doubt. The new nation needed money and a vital surge in trade. In 1787, a group of Boston merchants decided to send two ships on a desperate mission around Cape Horn and into the Pacific Ocean, to establish new trade with China, settle an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish, and find the legendary Northwest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENDRICK, JOHN RidleyRoss, John F.
Summary: "When John Wesley Powell became the first person to navigate the entire Colorado River, through the Grand Canyon, he completed what Lewis and Clark had begun nearly 70 years earlier--the final exploration of continental America. The son of an abolitionist preacher, a Civil War hero (who lost an arm at Shiloh), and a passionate naturalist and geologist, in 1869 Powell tackled the vast and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9113 KNUOlds, Elizabeth Fagg.
Contents: Annie Smith Peck.--Delia J. Akeley.--Marguerite Harrison.--Louise Arner Boyd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.922 OLDDolnick, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.91 DOLAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: An account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.804 AMBCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMBAvery, Tom
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9163 AVETurk, Jonathan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 TURAmbrose, Stephen E.
Summary: Author Stephen E. Ambrose retells the classic story of Lewis and Captain William Clark's journey across the great unknown of western America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2008