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By Jo Ann Trogdon

ISBN-10: 0826220495

ISBN-13: 9780826220493

In 1798—more than 5 years prior to he led the epic western trip that may make him and Meriwether Lewis nationwide heroes—William Clark trigger through flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky domestic with a shipment of tobacco and furs to promote downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He additionally carried with him a leather-trimmed magazine to list his travels and notes on his activities.

In this shiny heritage, Jo Ann Trogdon finds William Clark’s hugely questionable actions in the course of the years prior to his well-known trip west of the Mississippi. Delving into the main points of Clark’s diary and ledger entries, Trogdon investigates proof linking Clark to a sequence of plots—often known as the Spanish Conspiracy—in which corrupt officers sought to line their wallet with Spanish funds and to split Kentucky from the us. The Unknown Travels and doubtful goals of William Clark provides readers a extra complicated portrait of the yankee icon than has been formerly written.

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