Trail: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

TitleTrail: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Year of Publication1989
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes506 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsCharbonneau, Louis
PublisherDoubleday
CityNew York
KeywordsCorps of Discovery; explorers; inn keepers; keelboats; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809); William Clark (1770-1838)
Abstract

A fictionalized saga of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806), briefly opening in Pittsburgh where its big boat is built on the Allegheny River before sailing the Ohio River to St. Louis and the Western frontier, eventually to the Pacific coast.

Author Biography

Henry Louis Charbonneau (1924—2017), born in Detroit, served in World War II and worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times. He wrote 15 Western Novels under the name Carter Travis Young and more novels—Science Fiction and Historical—under his own name. He lived in California.

Time

1803