What is in the book
Two captains, one continent, zero idea what they'd find.
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States with a single real estate deal. Then he had to figure out what he'd actually bought. Enter Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: a moody genius and a level-headed frontiersman tasked with crossing a blank spot on the map the size of Western Europe.
This is what happened:
- A keelboat, two pirogues, and forty-five men pushed into the Missouri River with instructions to find a water route to the Pacific (spoiler: there wasn't one)
- Grizzly bears, hostile encounters, diplomatic disasters, and one Shoshone woman who turned out to be the expedition's secret weapon
- The moment they crested the Rockies and realized Jefferson's dream of an easy Northwest Passage was dead
- How they made it back alive, and what it cost them
- The unvarnished truth about York, Sacagawea, and who actually got credit
No fluff. No filler. Just the Lewis and Clark expedition as it actually unfolded.
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