Description
An illiterate half-breed employed as translator and hunter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition serves as the conduit for Thom’s (The Red Heart) learned but over-meticulous fictional account of the celebrated trek. Wryly observing the bumbling efforts of arrogant whites to win the trust and loyalty of bellicose Indians, George Drouillard follows along as captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and 30-odd white explorers journey up the Missouri River, across the Rockies, to the Pacific shore and back again, all the while plagued by mutiny, desertion, navigational confusion, weather disasters, bitter hardship and fear of Indian attacks.
Author: James Alexander Thom
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN-13 Code:9780345465566
ISBN: 0345465563
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