Description
A colorful history of the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark expedition into the Louisian Purchase territories focuses on the machinations of Aaron Burr, who was plotting with a top military commander, General James Wilkinson, to make a secret alliance with Spain, raise an army, and invade the new U.S. territory. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Read More
Contrary to popular opinion, the opening of the American frontier was not a simple land purchase; it was actually a hardscrabble fight. Even as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on their legendary journey to the Pacific Ocean, other forces were taking the measure of the land with far darker ambitions. <br><br>Aaron Burr, the charming and treacherous former vice president, determined that if he could not be master of his nation, he would instead become emperor of the next best thing: the Louisiana Territory. Slyly working with the powerful and ambitious commander of the U.S. Army, General James Wilkinson, Burr instigated a plot to seize not only Louisiana, but all of Mexico as well. Told from a time when the wildest plots and the most grandiose dreams thrived, as schemers and revolutionaries conspired to create a new country, <b>Jefferson and the Gun-Men</b> is the riveting tale of this unlikely story
Read Less