Undaunted Courage (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1774-1809
- Setting: Various Eastern states, the Louisiana Territory, and the Pacific Northwest
- Principal Characters: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, William Clark
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Suicide, Science or scientists, Native Americans or American Indians, Adventure, Presidents, Frontier or pioneer life, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Northwest (U.S.), Louisiana Territory
In the introduction to his biography of the great Western explorer Meriwether Lewis, Stephen E. Ambrose admits to a long- standing “obsession” with the Lewis and Clark expedition that led him to spend most of his Independence Days over the last two decades at the Lemhi Pass in Idaho, where his subject crossed the Continental Divide on his way to the Pacific in 1805. Originally intending a biography of William Clark but learning that one was in progress, and advised that new material on Lewis had come to light since his life was last written more than thirty years ago, Ambrose chose...
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