William Clark and the Shaping of the West
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Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark co-captained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years later, Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare combination of storytelling and scholarship, bestselling author Landon Y. Jones vividly depicts Clark's life and the dark and bloody ground of America's early West, capturing the qualities of character and courage that made Clark an unequaled leader in America's grander enterprise: the shaping of the West.
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There are a lot of details in this book. It's mostly about Clarks life after the Voyage of Discovery. I was struck by how slowly things moved compared to now. Clark would travel from St. Louis to Washington to meet with government officials and the round trip would last a month. The events covered here would have been recent history for the people who founded my town. The past seems a little closer than it did.
