Nimrod Expedition

828,000 square miles of land just west of the Mississippi river, this was called the Louisiana purchase. President Thomas Jefferson secretly arranged a expedition to explore the unchartered land. Lewis & Clark were chosen to be the calm, courageous captions of this intriguing expedition. Their task was to find men who could hunt, build forts, boats, and be able to handle horses. President Jefferson also wanted records of the trip, so he asked them to make maps of the…

His planning helped him to describe everything and anything thoroughly. Jefferson was very pleased with his notes because he had the most and the explanations helped everyone to understand the territory. Also, Clark's positive attitude helped to keep everyone's worries under control and keep everyone focused. This attitude remained because he was a soldier. Being a soldier taught him how to not only respect others, but earn respect. Clark helped our country better itself by leading everyone…

life many times in the journey. We were accompanied by a interpreter by the name of Sacagawea who is from the Shoshone tribe. She was a great interpreter and a great member of our party, there was a couple times she saved our butts in the expedition and saved our stuff our found us food. If it wasn't for Sacagawea we probably wouldn't have made it over the Rockies. We are still very grateful for everything she…

The main idea the author intends to convey was that the Lewis and Clark Expedition was successful because of many of Lewis’ qualities, and the expedition was extremely important for the American people and the American dream. Throughout the book, Ambrose emphasized Lewis and Clark’s good partnership and complete trust in each other, as well as the men’s trust in their captains. Ambrose describes the captain’s trust, “Lewis and Clark has not been together in seven years, but even before they met…

When word got out about Skookum Jim Mason, Dawson Charlie, and George Washington Carmack finding gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in August 1896, their discovery sparked one of the greatest gold rushes in history: the Klondike Gold Rush (“What Was the Klondike Gold Rush?”). Jack London, famous for his novel The Call of the Wild, was one of thousands of stampeders that made their way north in hopes of getting rich. Through the theme of the indifference of nature in his short stories,…

First, white civil servants conducted semi-diplomatic relations with Native American delegates, offering American material goods to exact payments of vast territory that would ameliorate the inconvenient differences between white and native social structures. Secondly, indigenous translators humored white functionaries to gain prestige and influence through translation by preserving indigenous linguistic traditions. Thirdly, Southern slaves reworked their presence within spiritual spaces…

Andres Resendez’s work A Land So Strange interprets Cabeza de Vaca’s journey across America as “an extreme tale of survival” in which he was able to bridge two different worlds in order to survive. Resendez’s central argument is that Cabeza de Vaca transformed over his journey across America from a conquistador with conquering intentions to a medicine man that advocated for diplomacy and alliance with the Indians. Resendez’s interpretation of Cabeza de Vaca’s transformation and commitment to a…

and Clark’s Journey in Comparison to Prince Maximilian of Wied’s One of America’s first treks into the West was the Lewis and Clark expedition. The men’s journey brought about new discoveries for America. It also inspired other other explorers to go and visit the West. One of the said explorers was Prince Maximilian of Wied. The prince’s main goal for his expedition was to collect a variety of specimen from the West. By looking at each of the explorers’ experience, it is easy to identify…

chapter is filled with Jefferson’s dreams and ambitions regarding westward exploration and expansion. In chapter thirty three of Undaunted Courage, Stephen Ambrose records the events that transpired directly following the the famed Lewis and Clark expeditions. Robert Morgan’s theory that no true history of western expansion exists is based on the fact that…

William Clark went on their expedition of the territory, they reported an abundance of lakes and live animals that could support a large number…