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It is September 23, 1804. A nervous Sergeant John Ordway records
these words: The Lewis and Clark Expedition has just met an aggressive band of
Teton Sioux. A war of words is about to escalate into a war of bullets and
arrows. President Jefferson has ordered Lewis to find the most direct
route to the Pacific Ocean. These Sioux warriors are the first serious
challenge to this order.
This second
book recounting the Lewis and Clark Expedition starts in the Fall of 1804;
when the Explorers met the Sioux, Arikara and Mandan Indians.
The expedition
halted for the winter in North Dakota and made a freezing winter camp.
Here they met
a French trader and his teenage Shoshone wife,
Sacajawea.
In the Spring.
they hurried up the Missouri, hoping to reach the Pacific and return in a
single year.
By June, Lewis
and Clark were still East of the Rockies and trying to guess which fork of the
Missouri would lead them over those forbidding peaks.
Written By:
Brad Phillips
5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 124 pages, paperback.
$10.95 each with Free Shipping.*
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