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Subject: Fwd: The Lewis and Clark Map
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:07:27 -0400
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
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David Cobb
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>"HOPES AND DREAMS"
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>THE LEWIS AND CLARK MAP
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>Announcing a strictly limited facsimile of the first comprehensive map
>prepared from the epic journey of Lewis & Clark presented by The Boston
>Athenĉum and Haley & Steele.
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>Available as a deluxe folded facsimile edition, and as a frameable,
>anniversary edition.
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>For purchasing information go to: www.haleysteele.com/lewisandclark.
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>An American Treasure.
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>In 1803, inspired by dreams of trade and settlement, President Thomas
>Jefferson appointed two veterans of the military campaigns on the western
>frontier, Meriwether Lewis, his private secretary, and William Clark, a
>fellow Virginian, to lead an expedition to explore the northwestern part of
>the North American continent. The Boston Athenĉum, in association with
>Haley & Steele, is pleased to announce the publication of a unique record
>of their discoveries, a manuscript map of the Lewis and Clark expedition,
>drawn by Nicholas King, cartographer to Jefferson's War Department. This
>map, compiled from the route maps of William Clark, the observations of
>Meriwether Lewis, and the testimony of Indian informants, shows the upper
>portion of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific
>Ocean. It represents the first fruits of the "tour of discovery" and was
>probably made in 1807 or 1808, after the captains had presented their
>findings to Jefferson and before Clark began work on the map that was
>published with the history of the expedition in 1814.
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>For purchasing information go to: www.haleysteele.com/lewisandclark.
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>To find out more about the Boston Athenĉum go to: www.bostonathenaeum.org
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