Synopses & Reviews
An indispensable guide to our nations epic adventureThe years 2003–2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clarks famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named scores of places and rivers, met with many Native American tribes, and wrote the first descriptions of heretofore unknown plants and animals. By the end of their trip, Lewis and Clark had navigated and named two thirds of the American continent.
They may have had undaunted courage, but the sheer volume of information related to their expedition can be more than a little daunting to the armchair historian. Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains over five hundred lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition and the places they went to the weapons and tools, trade goods, and medicines they carried, along with the food and amusements that sustained them. Highly readable and informative, its the perfect introduction for the Lewis and Clark novice, and the comprehensive guide no buff will want to be without.
Stephenie Amborse Tubbs is a veteran traveler on the Lewis and Clark trail and was an assistant researcher on her father's three-volume biography of Richard Nixon. She writes about Montana history and serves on the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center's Foundation board. She lives in Helena, Montana, with her husband, John, and sons, Alex and Riley.
Clay Straus Jenkinson is a nationally respected Jefferson scholar whose previous books include The Paradox of Thomas Jefferson, Message on the Wind, and The Character of Meriwether Lewis. He is scholar in residence at Lewis and Clark College and a senior fellow of the Center for Digital Government. He lives in Reno, Nevada.
The years 2003-2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named scores of places and rivers, met with many Native American tribes, and wrote the first descriptions of heretofore undocumented plants and animals. By the end of their trip, Lewis and Clark had navigated and named two-thirds of the American continent.
Undaunted courage they may have had, but the sheer volume of information related to their expedition can be more than a little daunting. Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains more than 500 lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition and the places they went, to the weapons and tools, trade goods and medicines they carried, along with the food and amusements that sustained them. Highly readable and informative, it is both a perfect introduction to the Lewis and Clark adventure and a comprehensive guide for students.
"This companion accomplishes what all such works strive to do, be a complete account of the people, places, and things associated with the Corps of Discovery. In my opinion, from now on it will be the basic reference source in every Lewis and Clark scholar's library."From the Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose
"Hats off to Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs and Clay Jenkinson for compiling The Lewis and Clark Companion. This handy reference work will be a bible to anyone who wants to properly interpret the Lewis and Clark journals, hike some part of the 8,000-mile trail from Missouri to Oregon, or understand what life was like west of the Appalachians when Thomas Jefferson was president. A truly marvelous guidebook!"Douglas Brinkley, director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans
"Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs literally grew up on the Lewis and Clark Trail during summer trips with her father, Stephen Ambrose. Clay Jenkinson is one of the most creative interpreters of the Lewis and Clark experience. Between the two of them, they have come up with The Lewis and Clark Companion, a book that ought to find its way into the backpack of anyone hiking the Lolo Trail, the dry bag of anyone canoeing the Wild and Scenic Missouri River, or kept close at hand for the armchair traveler reading the journals of Lewis and Clark and whose travels along the Lewis and Clark Trail are journeys of the mind. Think of this book as a collection of those extended footnotes that you often wish were incorporated into writings about Lewis and Clark but seldom are."John Logan Allen, author of Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming
"This is an inspired pairing of a noted Lewis and Clark scholar and a writer who has traveled and studied the trail nearly her whole life. The authors do a fine job collecting two centuries' worth of writings by and about Lewis and Clark in one easy-to-use volume."Julie Fanselow, author of Traveling the Lewis & Clark Trail
"Few people know the Lewis and Clark story better than Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs and Clay Jenkinson, who together have taken a continent-sized mass of information and condensed it into one easy-to-use reference volume."Dayton Duncan, author of Out West and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
"Comprehensive . . . The authors intend their book to be consulted by Lewis and Clark students who are reading the explorers' journals . . . Tubbs, who was an assistant researcher on her historian father's biography of Nixon and serves on the foundation board of the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, and Jenkinson, a Thomas Jefferson scholar, have concentrated on synthesis rather than original research; the steadily mounting accretion of Lewis and Clark scholarship has necessitated such a guide, which touches on everything from what the voyagers ate to the places they explored and the people they encountered. This handy volume, timed for publication as the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition opens, has the virtue of teaching the student while helpfully reminding the scholar."Publishers Weekly
"Lewis and Clark experts Tubbs and Jenkinson have assembled a handy reference to the explorers' seminal transcontinental journey on the bicentennial of its beginning. Arranged alphabetically, the more than 500 entries vary from concise, one-sentence descriptions to multipage treatises for principle corps members, major events, important geographic features, and significant flora and fauna. References follow each entry, and a considerable bibliography is included. Appendixes list the Indian trade goods that Corps of Discovery members carried with them and a list of native tribes they encountered. Entries for controversial expedition members, like Sacagawea and York, include the conflicting theories regarding their roles during the journey and post-journey, with which recent research has grappled."Margaret Atwater-Singer, University of Evansville Library, Indiana, Library Journal
Synopsis
An indispensable guide to our nation's epic adventure
Synopsis
An indispensable guide to our nations epic adventureThe years 2003-2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clarks famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named scores of places and rivers, met with many Native American tribes, and wrote the first descriptions of heretofore unknown plants and animals. By the end of their trip, Lewis and Clark had navigated and named two thirds of the American continent.
They may have had undaunted courage, but the sheer volume of information related to their expedition can be more than a little daunting to the armchair historian. Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains over five hundred lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition and the places they went to the weapons and tools, trade goods, and medicines they carried, along with the food and amusements that sustained them. Highly readable and informative, its the perfect introduction for the Lewis and Clark novice, and the comprehensive guide no buff will want to be without.
Synopsis
An indispensable guide to our nation’s epic adventure
The years 2003–2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight months, the Corps of Discovery traveled more than eight thousand miles through eleven future states, named scores of places and rivers, met with many Native American tribes, and wrote the first descriptions of heretofore unknown plants and animals. By the end of their trip, Lewis and Clark had navigated and named two thirds of the American continent.
They may have had undaunted courage, but the sheer volume of information related to their expedition can be more than a little daunting to the armchair historian. Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains over five hundred lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition and the places they went to the weapons and tools, trade goods, and medicines they carried, along with the food and amusements that sustained them. Highly readable and informative, it’s the perfect introduction for the Lewis and Clark novice, and the comprehensive guide no buff will want to be without.
Synopsis
Written by two highly regarded Lewis and Clark experts, this book contains over 500 lively and fascinating entries on everything from the members of the expedition to the weapons and medicines they carried. 30 illustrations, 2 maps.
About the Author
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs is a veteran traveler on the Lewis and Clark trail and was an assistant researcher on her fathers three-volume biography of Nixon. She writes about Montana history and serves on the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Centers Foundation board. She lives in Helena, Montana.
Clay Straus Jenkinson is a nationally respected Jefferson scholar whose previous books include The Paradox of Thomas Jefferson and Message on the Wind. He is scholar in residence at Lewis and Clark College and a senior fellow of the Center for Digital Government. He lives in Reno, Nevada.