The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: Comprehensive Index (JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION) - Hardcover

University Of Nebraska--Lincoln Center For Great Plains Studies; American Philosophical Society

9780803229426: The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: Comprehensive Index (JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION)

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ISBN 10: 0803229429 ISBN 13: 9780803229426

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1983

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804–6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West. This complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition incorporates the journals along with a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.

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About the Author:

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of these journals.

Review:

“[This edition] stands as one of the great accomplishments of American scholarship and scholarly publishing alike. The work of historian Gary Moulton and a team of some three dozen specialists working through the University of Nebraska's Center for Great Plains Studies with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the 13-volume Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was published by the University of Nebraska Press from 1983 to 2001.”—Gregory McNamee, Washington Post Book World (Gregory McNamee Washington Post Book World)

“The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition [are] now at last available in a superbly edited, easily read edition. . . . For almost two hundred years [Lewis and Clark's] strong words waited, there but not there, printed but not read: our silent epic. But words can wait: now the captains' writings have at last spilled out, and fully, in this regal edition.”—Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books (Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books)

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