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The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions

✍ Scribed by Mosher, Howard Frank

Book ID: 107909455
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue: English
Weight: 513 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780618197217

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✦ Synopsis

In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson--schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer--sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting.

The True Account , which Lawrence Millman calls "part riotous adventure, part book of wonders, and part historical travesty," is the hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story of a man "whose imagination is unfettered by either convention or fact,...

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