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Summary: After explorer Meriwether Lewis suffers an untimely death, a messenger from the President is sent to investigate. A tense encounter with the only witness begins to unravel the mystery. Was it suicide, an accident, murder, or conspiracy?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MYS

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

St. George, Judith

Summary: Presents an account of the two-and-a-half-year expedition that yielded vast knowledge of the West, geographically and scientifically.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917 STG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHA BASKET

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What St.George

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Summary: An account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.804 AMB

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMB

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 AMB

Kroll, Steven.

Summary: Introduces Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their expedition of 1804-6 through the Louisiana Territory, opening the land from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1994

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: P-J Basket KRO

Hall, Brian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAL

Summary: For the first time in the two hundred years since Lewis and Clark led their expedition from St. Louis to the Pacific, we hear the other side of the story--as we listen to nine descendants of the Indians whose homelands were traversed. Among those who speak: Newspaper editor Mark Trahant writes of his childhood belief that he was descended from Clark and what his own research uncovers....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 LEW

Summary: From the Revolution through the California Gold Rush, it tells the visceral, immersive narrative of the American frontier through the eyes of the most iconic figures who explored and fought to claim the country₂s vast wilderness. A prequel to the first award-winning miniseries, this four-part docuseries features dramatized portrayals of Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Lewis & Clark, Davy Crocket and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks, LLC. 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MEN

Duncan, Dayton.

Contents: Preface: Come up me / Ken Burns -- Introduction -- Look forward to distant times -- Floyd's bluff -- Land of plenty -- Children -- Vision quest / William Least Heat-Moon -- Perfect harmony -- Scenes of visionary enchantment -- Most distant fountain of the mighty Missouri -- Friends / Stephen E. Ambrose -- Hungry Creek -- O! The Joy -- Wet and disagreeable -- Finding Sacagawea / Erica Funkhouser...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 DUN

Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)

Summary: Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LEW

Lewis, Meriwether

Summary: "At the dawn of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented journey from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific Ocean and back again. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. The tale of their incredible journey, meticulously recorded in their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Adventure Classics 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.804 LEW

MacGregor, Greg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Documentary Studies 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 978 MAC

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