Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America’s Wild Frontier

Author: Stephen E. Ambrose

This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory’. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled….Read More

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