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Author:   David J. Peck ,  Moira Ambrose
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   Bison Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780803235113

ISBN 10:   0803235119
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   01 June 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"AcknowledgmentsForewordIntroductionChapter 1 - Politics and Passion: The Exploration of the American WildernessChapter 2 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: The Right Stuff of 1803Chapter 3 - Just Doing the Best We Can: Development of American Medicine 1620-1803Chapter 4 - Into the Starting Blocks: The Expedition PreparesChapter 5 - Misqutrs on the Ohio: The Trip Gets UnderwayChapter 6 - Snakes in the Grass & Bugs in the River: Rattlers and Diarrhea on the MissouriChapter 7 - The Sun and Dying Young: A Lucky Streak EndsChapter 8 - They Should Have Danced All Night: ""Louis Veneri"" Joins the CorpsChapter 9 - Cold Toes and a Baby Boy: Winter with the MandansChapter 10 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act One: May-June 1805Chapter 11 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Two: May-July 1805Chapter 12 - From a Torrent to a Trickle: To the Headwaters of the MissouriChapter 13 - No Place for Mockersins: Over the BitterrootsChapter 14 - A Winter of Pore Elk and Flees: The Pacific 1805-1806Chapter 15 - A Clash of Cultures: March-April 1806Chapter 16 - Frontier Doctor and Medical Diplomats: Great Challenges in IdahoChapter 17 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Three: June-August 1806Chapter 18 - Near Disaster and Then . . . : Back Home: August and September 1806Chapter 19 - Ghosts of Explorations Past: Fates of the Corps of DiscoveryChapter 20 - Fiddles and Friendships: The Sinews of SuccessAppendix One - Riddles of Nature: The World's Medical ExpeditionAppendix Two - Medicines of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Helpful Pharmacy Terms, Lewis & Clark's Medicine Chest, Instruments and Other SuppliesNotesBibliographyIndex"

Reviews

Altogether revealing, instructive, and entertaining. --Dave Walter, research historian, Montana Historical Society--Dave Walter (10/05/2010)

David Peck has brought a transfusion of new energy to Lewis and Clark scholarship. Everyone who reads his excellent and witty book on the medical aspects of Lewis and Clark will gain a new appreciation for the almost unbelievable stamina of the men--and one very remarkable woman--of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. --Clay S. Jenkinson, scholar-in-residence, Lewis and Clark College

David Peck has brought a transfusion of new energy to Lewis and Clark scholarship. Everyone who reads his excellent and witty book on the medical aspects of Lewis and Clark will gain a new appreciation for the almost unbelievable stamina of the men--and one very remarkable woman--of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. --Clay S. Jenkinson, scholar-in-residence, Lewis and Clark College -- Clay S. Jenkinson The strength of Dr. Peck's book is its delightful readability... A splendid narrative that binds the reader. -Frank Iber, MD, Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA Altogether revealing, instructive, and entertaining. -Dave Walter, research historian, Montana Historical Society -- Dave Walter Dr. Peck's book is significant not only for the new medical information it brings to light but because it is one of the most readable and entertaining of the books about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. When asked which of the many books someone should read about the Expedition-or give as a gift-I recommend Or Perish in the Attempt. -Carol A. Bronson, former executive director, Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. -- Carol A. Bronson

Author Information

David J. Peck is a retired physician and a popular, nationally recognized speaker on the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He and his wife live in San Diego. Dr Peck can be contacted through his website @ lewisandclarkmedicine.com.  Moira Ambrose (1939–2009) wrote more than thirty books with her husband, Steven E. Ambrose, including several bestsellers. R. F. “Bob” Morgan is a Montana artist and cofounder of the Western Rendezvous of Art, which brings collectors and artists from around the country to Helena, Montana. 

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