Since the time of Columbus; explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804–6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography; Indian tribes; and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West. In April 1805 Lewis and Clark and their party set out from Fort Mandan following the Missouri River westward. This volume recounts their travels through country never before explored by white people. With new personnel; including the Shoshone Indian woman Sacagawea; her husband Toussaint Charbonneau; and their baby; nicknamed Pomp; the party spent the rest of the spring and early summer toiling up the Missouri. Along the way they portaged the difficult Great Falls; encountered grizzly bears; cataloged new species of plants and animals; and mapped rivers and streams.
#1533572 in Books Bison Books 2000-08-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .33 x 5.98l; .41 #File Name: 0803261780124 pages
Review
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. InterestingBy Alyssa A. LappenI've known several Holocaust survivors; and interviewed a few. This book provides an interesting perspective of a woman who escaped from a train en route to Treblinka --- jumped with her husband through a steel bar that a few prisoners managed to cut --- and escaped to Warsaw.For some time she and her husband hid successfully; pretending to be Christians. They were eventually caught; however; and like so many victims traversed many concentration camps.The interviews are quite emotional; but also lacking in many details. The story is difficult to piece together; as the interviews are dated according to when they were taken; not according to the events described.The book is important for the personal experiences and emotions.Overall; however; those seeking a total immersion in the experiences of Jewish men and women who survived the war; would be far better served by reading other works --- such as Mothers; Sisters; Resisters: Oral Histories; All But My Life; Alicia; Thanks to My Mother; a purported novel actually taken from the life of Vilna survivor Anya Brodman and The Boys: 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors; among others.---Alyssa A. Lappen5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Escaping from a Treblinka-Bound TrainBy Jan PeczkisThe author recounts her experiences in a form of interviews given in the 1990's; some fifty years after the events. She also expresses anger over those who deny that the Holocaust ever happened; and lists some of her loved ones who perished in this tragedy that supposedly never happened.Alina Bacall-Zwirn understands the fact that much of the so-called Polish police; in the service of the Germans; actually consisted of ethnic Germans. She comments: "That was the Volksdeutsche; working for Gestapo. That was the Polish police." (p. 40).She lived in the Warsaw ghetto; and was shipped to Treblinka. She managed to jump from the train; and was aided by a Pole who brought her food (p. 35). She then made it back to Warsaw.Later; she met with Poles who were being shipped to Germany for forced labor; and Poles who were incarcerated in concentration camps as a result of the failed Warsaw Uprising.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. My Grandma-Alina Bacall-ZwirnBy ABTo all of you who have kept my grandmothers memory alive; I thank you. I think of her everyday and hope she looks down on me. I read about her struggle in this book and also heard a bit of it when she would talk about it when I was younger. I am glad I got to meet her because I never got to meet my biological grandpa; Leo Bacall. I hope you all remember not only my grandmother and those who survived but 6 million who were lost.
