Shortest and Most Convenient Route: Lewis and Clark in Context Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 94, Part 5)

by Robert S. Cox

Based on papers delivered at the Bicentennial Conference for Lewis & Clark, held in Philadelphia in Aug. 2003, these essays grapple in different ways with the motives underlying the Corps of Discovery & the impact on American culture. The question of failure is used by the authors as a means of interrogating the intellectual & cultural context in which the expedition was framed & in which its results were distributed. Contributors include Robert S...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871699451
• ISBN13: 9780871699459
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 255 Pages