All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark
Abstract During the Lewis and Clark expedition, landscape features were named for all 33 people who made the round trip to the Pacific. Names were sometimes linked to events involving party members, but more often they seemed to be assigned randomly. Early re-visits by expedition veterans helped som...
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During the Lewis and Clark expedition, landscape features were named for all 33 people who made the round trip to the Pacific. Names were sometimes linked to events involving party members, but more often they seemed to be assigned randomly. Early re-visits by expedition veterans helped some of these names to survive.
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spelling | doaj.art-cee819990dc741a38496d498db1a7fa02022-12-22T03:42:05ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghNames0027-77381756-22791994-12-0142410.1179/nam.1994.42.4.269All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and ClarkArlen J. LargeAbstract During the Lewis and Clark expedition, landscape features were named for all 33 people who made the round trip to the Pacific. Names were sometimes linked to events involving party members, but more often they seemed to be assigned randomly. Early re-visits by expedition veterans helped some of these names to survive. http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1413 |
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title | All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark |
title_full | All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark |
title_fullStr | All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark |
title_full_unstemmed | All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark |
title_short | All in the Family: The In-House Honorifics of Lewis and Clark |
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