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Publisher
National Geographic Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Relive an amazing tale of discovery and exploration as National Geographic brings to life the first crossing. Two hundred years after Lewis & Clark's epic journey, go back in time and discover the adventure, danger, and beauty of the unmapped West.
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col., b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
378 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Bill Clark was Ronald Reagan's single most trusted aide, perhaps the most powerful national security advisor in American history. His close relationship with Reagan allows a special insight into the President as well as other close friends from the earliest Reagan years: Lyn Nofziger, Cap Weinberger and Bill Casey. Also featured are the exquisite Clare Boothe Luce; the elegant Nancy Reagan; the mercurial Alexander Haig; Britain's "Iron Lady", Margaret...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (329 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the Revolution through the California Gold Rush, it tells the visceral, immersive narrative of the American frontier through the eyes of the most iconic figures who explored and fought to claim the country₂s vast wilderness. A prequel to the first award-winning miniseries, this four-part docuseries features dramatized portrayals of Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Lewis & Clark, Davy Crocket and others.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Describes the sad life of Huguette Clark, heiress to a copper magnate's fortune, who withdrew from society to live in isolation in a huge 5th Avenue apartment before spending the last years of her life in a New York hospital.
12) Empty mansions: the mysterious life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune
Author
Description
"When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a reclusive 104-year-old heiress named Huguette Clark. Dedman...
13) New found land
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
500 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
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