The listing, LEWIS & CLARK,EXPLORATIONS FROM ST.LOUIS TO CALIF COAST PBS VHS SET,SEALED NEW has ended.
MAGNIFICENCE! BEAUTY & FIERCE CONDITIONS. MIRACULOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS!! TRUE EXPLORATION OF WEST BY LEWIS & CLARK---UNBELIEVABLE EXPERIENCES--
4 HOURS OF EDGE OF SEAT THRILLS . 2 Cassettes in case INDIANS MEET FIRST WHITE MEN, SOME SAVAGE tribes SOME KIND.. !!! BRAND NEW IN WRAP!
This film makes history live. "The Core of Discovery" expedition was more than a century and a half before my birth and yet, this film made me feel as if I were a member of the team..
Like other Ken Burns films, it is long.! Take your time.
I never knew that the Lewis and Clark expedition was a military expedition. I never knew that Lewis and Clark where military officers and that they took a platoon of soldiers with them. I never knew that they took plant and animal samples, including sending a live ground hog back to Thomas Jefferson.
I never knew that the expedition was called the Core of Discovery or that these two incredible military officers took so many soldiers such an incredible distance over the course of years and lost only one, who was lost to a disease that most likely no one could have cured at the time. I never knew that they drew the first map of most of the United States, using only dead reckoning and were accurate to withing 40 miles of the actual distance despite their primitive instruments and a distance of some 4,000 miles!
I never knew these men were so incredible. And, I never knew that Merriweather Lewis was so incredibly depressed that he died, "I'm sorry to say," by suicide. Now thanks to Ken Burnes--I am well informed and completely filled with awe!!