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Undaunted Courage

Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage is a well written book regarding Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s journey to explore the west. The book centers on the friendship between Thomas Jefferson and Lewis. Ambrose wrote the book to emphasis the life of Lewis. The book essentially becomes the biography of Lewis because Ambrose goes form the beginning of the journey to after the journey.

In the first few chapters Ambrose goes into details about Lewis’ life in preparation for the exploration. Lewis was a born into a well-known Virginia plantation family which is one of the reasons Jefferson knew his family. In 1801 Jefferson asked Lewis to be his personal secretary and aid which Lewis accepted and moved to the president’s residence. Jefferson was persistent in wanting to explore the west and when Jefferson learned that the British were planning on engaging in a fur trade Jefferson chose Lewis to head up the exploration of the west. Lewis made......

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