The Mandans and the Nez Perce welcomed them the Teton Sioux and the Blackfeet they encountered were less accommodating. The Indians’ reactions are another matter. The journals of the leaders and the men reflect their bravery and resourcefulness, and are often touchingly human, as when, after a long period of short supplies, one of the expedition members writes apologetically of eating horse meat. His companions, as the docu poignantly demonstrates, named the hilltop where they buried him Floyd Bluff. Charles Floyd, died in what’s now Idaho, apparently from a burst appendix. Louis not only behaved, after a few setbacks, but survived. The men, in their early 20s, generally stuck by the rules from all accounts, the small team starting in St. How York is eventually treated is a sad comment on the people of an era.Ī formidable team, Lewis and Clark established and administered any necessary punishment, including lashes to the back. A straightforward, red-headed Virginian, Clark took along his slave, York, because he had grown so dependent on him. Lewis suffered from what seems to have been occasional depression Clark, more emotionally stable, was robust. Lewis, 29, a former military officer and Jefferson’s private secretary for two years, was chosen by the president for the job Lewis selected his friend and former military commander Clark, 33, to go along into history. The leaders’ backgrounds and relationship are described early on. Burns’ cameras catch first impressions of the Missouri’s White Cliffs, sandstone formations that still rise today like ancient fortresses the Pacific (after first mistaking the Columbia’s wide gorge for the sea) the Continental Divide the three forks in the Missouri. Mountain ranges, rushing streams, thick forests, strong river currents and unimaginable waterfalls faced the explorers. Colors are startling, with blues too blue, trees too high, wide open spaces breathtakingly wide and open. And they do it in the best way: by re-creating with cameras what the expedition saw. The filmmakers capture the imposing grandeur as it was first viewed. Writer Dayton Duncan, comparing the venture to the moon launch, observes that the moon-walkers at least had immediate and direct communication with their fellow man back on Earth these explorers, trekking through an uncharted void, had no way of contacting home base.īurns and Duncan splendidly convey the utter vastness and foreignness of these unknown 2,000 miles of the American continent. Staying with them through the winter and procuring horses from the Shoshone Indians, they continued the trek westward over the Rocky Mountains. Louis on May 14, 1804, Lewis and Clark, given $ 2,500 by the government and approximately four dozen men, headed up the difficult Missouri River by keelboat until November, when they encountered friendly Mandan Indians.
had bought for its $ 15 million and as a search for the (nonexistent) Northwest Passage, the supposed direct route to the Pacific. The already-planned expedition of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery, as Jefferson called it, was especially important to the nation - as an exploration of what the U.S.
Executive producer, Ken Burns producer-director, Burns producer-writer, Dayton Duncan based on the book by Duncan and Burns The United States had reached westward only as far as the Mississippi until the Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the country. Oh Wait, No Such Series, For Thousands Of Years Most "Historians" Have Viewed Any Extended, Complete And Clear Discussion Of Personal Motives And Characteristics And Morality Of The Political And Military Actors To Be Just Poor Taste, Like Discussing How Sausage Is Made, Except Anecdotally Better To Just Write An Adventure Story It's Not Cowardice In The Face Of Dangerous Sociopaths, It's Just, Well, Sensible To Avoid The Issues.Filmed along the original route of the 1804-06 Lewis & Clark expedition by Florentine Films and WETA-TV, Washington, D.C. Representatives And Senators Who Managed The Eventual Annexation Of This Vast Territory.
LEWIS AND CLARK CORPS OF DISCOVERY KEN BURNS SERIES
A Companion To The Series About The Backgrounds, Family Psychology And Ethical Discussions, Education, Social Relationships, Financial Motives, Covert Political Activities, And Family Legacies Of The U. Unfortunately For The Natives, Europeans Only Recognize Territorial Agreements After Violent Disagreements And Then Formal Treaties Between European Governments When Neither Government Is Strong Enough To Defeat The Other- Never The Case In The Americas. A Children's History Of The Expedition Into Native Owned Territory. Color Illustrations Throughout (illustrator).
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