Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition
By W. Raymond Wood.
Description
To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 179597 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has captured the American imagination more than the Missouri. . . . It is a river of promise, of dreams, and of dreams denied.” James P. Ronda, from the ForewordWhen Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent.” Ironically, though the fi...
ISBN(s)
0806134917, 9780806134918
