Summary and Analysis of Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage for AP US History Class

Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains on August 18, 1774. He had a sister, Jane, and a brother, Reuben. His father died of pneumonia. Lewis' mother married Captain John Marks six months after his father's death. The new family moved to Georgia when Lewis was eight or nine years old. There he learned the ways of the frontier. As time passed, Lewis longed for the knowledge that he could not receive in …

…ahead of them. Ambrose wrote this beautifully told story of hope, courage, dreams and the fate of two mean who would forever be immortal in the minds of men and women who would follow them from generations and generations. The story is exactly as the title says it is, a story of courage undaunted. Stephen E. Ambrose. Undaunted Courage. Ambrose-Tubbs Inc. 1996. Stephen E. Ambrose & Douglas G. Brinkley. Rise to Globalism. New York: Penguin Books. 1997.