Landon Jones
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Landon Y. Jones is an American editor and author. He is a former managing editor of People magazine and the author of William Clark and the Shaping of the West, a biography of William Clark, joint leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Jones also edited a selection of the expedition journals, The Essential Lewis and Clark, and is the author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation.
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, or ″Corps of Discovery Expedition" was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast by the United States. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William...
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Jones also edited a selection of the expedition journals, The Essential Lewis and Clark, and is the author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation.