000			04355nam a22005415i 4500
001			199240
003			IT-RoAPU
005			20221214233117.0
006			m|||||o||d||||||||
007			cr || ||||||||
008			210824t20182018pau fo d z eng d
020			_a9780812294712 _qPDF
024	7		_a10.9783/9780812294712 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780812294712
035			_a(DE-B1597)521538
035			_a(OCoLC)1135545858
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aF592.7.L42 _bS77 2018
072		7	_aBIO006000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a917.8042092 _aB _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aStroud, Patricia Tyson _eautore
245	1	0	_aBitterroot : _bThe Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis / _cPatricia Tyson Stroud.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a1 online resource (392 p.) : _b12 color, 24 b/w illus.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAuthor’s Note -- _tIntroduction -- _t1. An Unexpected Proposal -- _t2. Early Life -- _t3. The Threat of War -- _t4. Jefferson’s Choice -- _t5. Cocaptain -- _t6. Doctrine of Discovery -- _t7. Under Way -- _t8. The Teton Sioux -- _t9. Fort Mandan -- _t10. A “Darling” Project -- _t11. Across the Rockies to the Pacific -- _t12. The Return -- _t13. Unspeakable Joy -- _t14. Philadelphia Interlude -- _t15. A Classic Cast of Characters -- _t16. Land of Opportunity -- _t17. Honor Questioned -- _t18. Defamed -- _t19. Jefferson’s Letter -- _tA Selection of Plants Collected by Meriwether Lewis -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was he a suicide, felled by his own alcoholism and mental instability? Most historians have agreed. Patricia Tyson Stroud reads the evidence to posit another, even darker, ending for Lewis.Stroud uses Lewis's find, the bitterroot flower, with its nauseously pungent root, as a symbol for his reputation as a purported suicide. It was this reputation that Thomas Jefferson promulgated in the memoir he wrote prefacing the short account of Lewis's historic expedition published five years after his death. Without investigation of any kind, Jefferson, Lewis's mentor from boyhood, reiterated undocumented assertions of Lewis's serious depression and alcoholism.That Lewis was the courageous leader of the first expedition to explore the continent from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean has been overshadowed by presuppositions about the nature of his death. Stroud peels away the layers of misinformation and gossip that have obscured Lewis's rightful reputation. Through a retelling of his life, from his resourceful youth to the brilliance of his leadership and accomplishments as a man, Bitterroot shows that Jefferson's mystifying assertion about the death of his protégé is the long-held bitter root of the Meriwether Lewis story.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aExplorers _zWest (U.S.) _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. _2bisacsh
653			_aAmerican History.
653			_aAmerican Studies.
653			_aAutobiography.
653			_aBiography.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294712
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294712
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812294712.jpg
942			_cEB
999			_c199240 _d199240