In this riveting account, editor Gary E. Moulton blends the narrative highlights of his definitive Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals
Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His editing of the Lewis and Clark journals earned him the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association and the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska.
"If you're going to read just one book (and really, are you going to read more?), you should hear the story from the explorers themselves. 'I have scarcely experienced a day since my first arrival in this quarter without witnessing some novel occurrence,' Meriwether Lewis wrote in June 1805. Newly abridged versions of their diaries are being released by National Geographic's Anthony Brandt and the University of Nebraska's Gary E. Moulton. 'The diaries are like a movie script, but with characters even the best screenwriters couldn't make up,' says Wayne Freeman, who recently wrote a musical comedy based on the journey. 'You've got sex, adventure into the unknown, venereal disease, bugs, bears, diarrhea and a lot of good humor.' Not to mention those cool coonskin caps."January 27, 2003 Newsweek "Meticulously edited, with detailed (and absolutely necessary) footnotes, these volumes are a triumph of scholarly publishing... One version or another belongs on most readers' shelves--and should accompany any road trip through the West." January/February 2003 issue of The Atlantic Monthly
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