Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LEWIS AND CLARK: PARTNERS IN DEMOCRACY (512 pp.)-John Bakeless-Morrow...
Last week, the row collapsed in an exchange of U.S.-Canadian pleasantries as the subpoenas were withdrawn. Said Clark in a letter to Secretary Marshall: "The information supplied to our representatives at these meetings covered the immediate problems." In future, should similar problems arise, the Justice Department would consult first with the Canadian government. Washington called the outcome a draw, but to Ottawa it looked like a clear-cut victory...
...Lewis & Clark expedition set out from its camp near St. Louis, with a crew of 42 men. They carried all the latest astronomical equipment, arms for trouble, and 21 bales of presents-looking glasses, beads, 500 brooches and 432 curtain rings for Indian earrings-total cost: $2,160.41. Two years and 132 days later, the expedition returned from a country as little known as the moon. It came back intact, except for the loss of one man who died, probably of appendicitis, 98 days after the journey began...
...account can make the 7,689-mile journey of Lewis & Clark seem dull, nor has any account, including this one, ever quite seemed to do it justice...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...