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Article: Historian's corps of recovery.(historian Stephen Ambrose and environmental groups campaign for renewal of Missouri River)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 7, 1998
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Apart from some superannuated environmentalist or anonymous old river rat, no one knows the Missouri River better than author and historian Stephen Ambrose. Since 1976, he has spent his summers retracing Lewis and Clark's route from St. Louis some 2,500 miles upstream to the river's source at Three Forks, Mont. After two decades of these trips, he published Undaunted Courage, a bestselling account of the epic exploration of the "Corps of Discovery," which opened up the West. As he canoed, hiked, and camped along "every step of their trail" up the Big Muddy, Ambrose compared the explorers' journal descriptions of a rich and vibrant ecosystem with the present-day river. He ...