Lewis & Clark Expedition Calendar 2004: A Panoramic Celebration of the Journey"s Bicentennial

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 19628130730, 9780761130734



For history buffs, for western buffs, for everyone who wants to relive America"s great epic from 200 years ago, here is the Lewis & Clark Expedition Calendar for 2004. In a unique format--the calendar opens horizontally to 24 x 12, to accommodate panoramic photographs that span the breadth and grandeur of the landscape--Lewis & Clark brings to vivid life the world through which the explorers trekked. Using a special Linhof panoramic camera, Texas photographer Brent W. Phelps records extraordinary images of the actual sites as they exist today. Beaverhead Rock, Montana, a key landmark identified by Sacagawea. The remote Lochsa River in Idaho, where Old Toby, a Shoshone, guided the Corps across the "terrible" Bitterroot Mountains. The Lewis & Clark Expedition Calendar has a sweeping beauty that belies its traditional size. With text drawn from Lewis and Clark"s journals, each month brings us farther into the majestic land that"s held us in thrall for over 200 years.