Review of Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello By Donald Jackson

• Main Author: McColley, Robert
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1982
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; Arctic; Pacific; Indian; Fuller; Dunbar; Wilkinson
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/1643; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/2642/viewcontent/BR_McColley.pdf

The Founding Fathers knew almost nothing of that huge segment of North America bounded by New Mexico, the Pacific Coast, the Arctic, and the Mississippi. It became Thomas Jefferson's task, eagerly embraced, to dispel that ignorance. Here, as in so many other fields, he moved with a major curren...