Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the

Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American explorationâ€”and in presiding over that era of discovery, forged a great nation.
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century, as Britain, France, Spain, and the United States all jockeyed for control of the vast expanses west of the Mississippi River, the stakes for American expansion were incalculably high. Even after the American purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Spain still coveted that land and was prepared to employ any means to retain it. With war expected at any moment, Jefferson played a game of strategy, putting on the ground the only Americans he could: a cadre of explorers who finally annexed it through courageous investigation.
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Responsible for orchestrating the American push into the continent was President Thomas Jefferson. He most famously recruited Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who led the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific, but at the same time there were other teams who did the same work, in places where it was even more crucial. William Dunbar, George Hunter, Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis, and the dauntless Zebulon Pikeâ€”all were dispatched on urgent missions to map the frontier and keep up a steady correspondence with Washington about their findings.
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But they werenâ€™t always well-matchedâ€”with each other and certainly not with a Spanish army of a thousand soldiers or more. These tensions threatened to undermine Jeffersonâ€™s goals for the nascent country, leaving the United States in danger of losing its foothold in the West. Deeply researched and inspiringly told, Jeffersonâ€™s America rediscovers the robust and often harrowing action from these seminal expeditions and illuminates the presidentâ€™s vision for a continental America.
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-05-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-05-10
Format	Kindle eBook

Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

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