From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the Am

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An illustrated account of the amazing two-year journey of Lewis and Clark across the American West. In the early 1800s, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis set o

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A little more than a century ago, western North America was a mystery to the European settlers who had rapidly filled the eastern part of the continent. In the