More than the Sum of the Parts: Diversity and Status of Ecological Systems

• Main Authors: Adams, Jonathan S., Grossman, Dennis H.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2000
• Subjects: Northwest Passage; St. Louis; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195125191.003.0013

On July 5, 1803, Captain Meriwether Lewis of the First Infantry left Washington, D.C., and headed west. His destination was St. Louis, Missouri, where he was to take command, with his good friend William Clark, of the aptly named Corps of Discovery. President Thomas Jefferson had long dreamed of exp...