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First Across the Continent: The Story of Lewis and Clark Expedition is a captivating tale. Noah Brooks uses extensive, carefully selected excerpts from the original journals of the exploreres to send the armchair adventurer along on the trek with Lewis and Clark. The detailed descriptions and faithful narratives immerse you in one of the most amazing journeys in history.

Noah Brooks (1830-1903) was a journalist and editor who worked for newspapers in Sacramento, San Francisco, Newark, and New York. Michael Burlingame is the May Buckley Sadowski '19 Professor Emeritus of History at Connecticut College, author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, and editor of An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln and Inside Lincoln's White House, among other books.