(Lewis & Clark) Travels to the Source of the Missouri River

(Lewis & Clark) Travels to the Source of the Missouri River, and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806... By Captains Lewis and Clark. Published from the Official Report, and Illustrated by a Map of the Route, and Other Maps. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, Three octavo volumes, engraved maps (one folding) This is the expedition that has captured the nation's imagination, and this, one of the earliest records of the events. A cornerstone to mapping the continent and dispeller of myths, this is the incredible cartographic achievement produced by the Lewis & Clark expedition. Specifically, with the death of Merewhether Lewis, it is Clark's map of their almost 4,000 mile journey which he compiled, and was then copied by Samuel Lewis. It is the map that gave us a "living" understanding of the West, the bedrock substance which put to death the