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Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Du Pré finds himself in the White Cliffs area of Montana, a remote region in the shadow of the murky Missouri River. Du Pré has been hired by a group of filmmakers who are shooting a documentary about Lewis and Clark's expedition. Du Pré is a descendent of Pierre Cruzatte, a Metis fiddler and voyageur who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey; his daughter Maria agrees to play the role of Sacajawea. But trouble is in the air: a fire...
42) The courage test
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Will has no choice. His father drags him along on a wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark--whether he likes it or not. All the while, Will senses that something about this trip isn't quite right. Along the journey, Will meets fascinating strangers and experiences new thrills, including mountain cliffs, whitewater rapids, and a heart-hammering bear encounter. It is a journey into the soul of America's past, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The author separates truth from legend, and offers some ideas on what eventually happened to the strong and fascinating woman known to history as Sacagawea--the native American who made it possible for Lewis and Clark to explore America's then-uncharted West.
45) The far horizons
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Lewis and Clark and the Shoshoni Indian girl Sacajawea who served as their guide.
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off on a journey to explore the vast territory of the United States west of the Mississippi River. Accompanying Lewis and Clark and their team of explorers through this uncharted wilderness was Lewis' dog Seaman. Lewis and Clark and Me is Seaman's story. From his first meeting with Lewis, to being mistaken for a bear by Indians who had never seen such a large dog, to his encounters with wild animals...
Author
Publisher
Overlook
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Stone Heart is a gripping retelling of the story of American legend Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni woman who traveled with Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the West. Presented in Sacajawea's own voice juxtaposed with excerpts from Lewis and Clark's diaries, it is a work of moving and illuminating fiction cast from a famed piece of history that has long been masked by myth. Lewis and Clark recorded the external journey, its physical challenges...
Author
Series
Publisher
Portable Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What did 33 men in the 1800s need to find their way through the wilderness on a trip across America? They needed a woman--and they found one in Sacagawea, the Native American teenage mother who helped the Lewis and Clark expedition survive. She and her baby braved floods, hunger, storms, and snakes to help the expedition that opened the West. Sacagawea: Courageous Trailblazer! tells the life story of this amazing pioneer who endured hardship in her...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
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. Award-winning essayist and fiction writer Debra Magpie Earling...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back in the early part of the nineteenth century is one of the most famous journeys in American history. Previous accounts have largely romanticized the expedition, treating it as a great triumph. But was it? What really went on in the minds of these brave men and those who came with them? Novelist Brian Hall has been interested in Lewis and Clark for years and became convinced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770-1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book publishes many of these letters for the first time, revealing important details about the expedition, the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis, the status of Clark's slave York (the first African American known to have crossed...
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
56) Sacagawea
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Explore one of the most recognized figures in American history with this biography of Sacagawea. Kids will learn about her crucial role in the Lewis and Clark expedition and her influential legacy. The level 3 text provides accessible, yet wide-ranging, information for independent readers" --
57) Sacajawea
Author
Series
Publisher
Sunbird Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sacajawea was a brilliant, multilingual Shoshone girl who was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804, she set out with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to reach the Pacific Ocean. Almost 200 years later, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a US coin. This is her story.
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