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University of Virginia Press, 2006 - History - 222 pages. An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic...
Across the Continent is a lost silent film released by Paramount Pictures in June 1922, and was one of star Wallace Reid's last performances. This film was also the opening night film of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on June 22, 1922.
The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the Americas near the Lemhi Pass, eventually coming to the Columbia River, and the Pacific Ocean in 1805. The return voyage began on March 23, 1806, at Fort Clatsop, Oregon, ending six months later on September 23 of that year.
20 de sept. de 2023 · Welcome to 'Race Across the Continents', explorer! The day has finally arrived for a brave group of explorers to join the ‘Race Across the Continents’, in their trusty hot air balloon. However,...
2 de ago. de 2010 · across the continent by the lincoln highway CHAPTER I With what a strange thrill I look out from my stateroom window, early one April morning, and catch a glimpse of the flashing light on one of the green promontories of the Golden Gate!
Published just one year before the “golden spike” joined Union Pacific Railroad tracks with those of the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah, Across the Continent symbolizes the expansionist zeal of post–Civil War America.
Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition’s bicentennial, Across the Continent is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is an examination of the explorers’ world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own.
