Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest
by John Logan Allen
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How Lewis and Clark's epic journey of 1804-06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. 45 maps.Tags
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Geographer Allen's examination of what the exploring community believed the geography of the interior was like, versus what the Corps of Discovery found. "The geography of hope and the geography of reality." Groundbreaking work originally published as "Passage through the Garden."
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- Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest
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- William Clark; Meriwether Lewis
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- Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804 | 1806)
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