The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark

Year of Publication
1902
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
443 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Eva Emery Dye
Publisher
A. C. McClurg & Company
City
Chicago
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Abstract
A fictionalized account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806), briefly opening in Pittsburgh where its big boat is built on the Allegheny River before to the Pacific coast. The novel also includes “Mad” Anthony Wayne’s campaign from Pittsburgh to the Northwest Territory and the Whiskey Rebellion. The Conquest was a popular historical novel and is best known as the first staging of Sacagawea as an important character in the Expedition.
Author Biography
Eva Emery Dye (1855-1947), born in Oregon City, Oregon, was a writer of the Pacific Northwest and a prominent member of the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Time
1794-1803
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