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Jefferson's America sheds new light on one of the main element aspects of Jefferson's presidency. Almost everyone who has used a US history course is familiar with Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase and the vacations of Lewis and Clark, but that's not where this formative instance in American history commences or ends. Actually Jefferson delivered four other expeditions western. Zebulon Pike was dispatched on two missions: first to the headwaters of the Mississippi and second toward what is now Colorado. William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter explored North Louisiana and Arkansas. Peter Custis and Thomas Freeman (with armed forces officer Richard Sparks) used the Red River of North Texas and Oklahoma. The stakes for American extension were enormously high - at a time when Britain, France, and Spain were also all vying for control of the great expanse of land western of the Mississippi River, the geopolitics of finding were paramount. Jefferson, a genuine scholar of the Enlightenment, searched for men of science to attempt these immediate missions into the frontier. However they weren't always well matched - with one another or even with the task of checking out itself. Tensions between Dunbar and Hunter in particular threatened to undermine Jefferson's progress, leaving america at risk of dropping its foothold in the Western. No previous book has ever attempted to straighten out and simultaneously take together Jefferson's age of exploration. The individual experiences here are gripping - evenly ambitious and loss of life defying - making for a great, suspenseful narrative, while the story as a whole offers listeners a broader look than has have you ever been given of the period of American exploration.
