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Historic Military Convoy Travels Expedition Route of Lewis & Clark
The book uses the expedition’s million-word journals to highlight Sacagawea, York and other overlooked participants while challenging familiar myths.
- Author Craig Fehrman explores the Lewis and Clark expedition in his new book, 'This Vast Enterprise,' challenging historical myths by focusing on overlooked perspectives and raw humanity from the 1804 trek.
- Fehrman re-evaluates the expedition's million-word journals to correct historical misconceptions; while Thomas Jefferson praised survival of all but one soldier, the reality was far more complex and dangerous.
- Elevating overlooked figures like York and Sacagawea, the narrative uses specific details—the Shoshone 'kohno' carrier—to move these individuals from myth into the lived reality of the 1804 trek.
- Nearly 50 antique military vehicles stop in Great Falls on August 1 to retrace the 1805 westward route, featuring machines from WWI to the War on Terror.
- Digitized journals edited by scholar Gary Moulton allow readers to search the expedition's million words and discover their own angles on Lewis and Clark's famous trek online.
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Leaning Left4Leaning Right9Center22Last UpdatedBias Distribution63% Center
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- 63% of the sources are Center
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C 63%
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