The Great Pains & Accuracy Tour

Primary Resources
Clark's Journal Archiving Early America
The Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson's Letter to Lewis
Corps' Roster
Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," 1893.


Publications
Allen, John Logan. Lewis & Clark And The Image Of The American Northwest. New York: Dover Publications, 1991.

Bakeless, John, Ed. The Journals of Lewis & Clark. New York: Mentor Books, 1964. (Out of Print)

Bowden, Charles. Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America. New York: Random House, 1995.

Devoto, Bernard, Ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997 (Revised Ed.).

Duncan, Dayton. Out West. New York: Penguin, 1987.

Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. New York: Penguin, 1989.

Least Heat-Moon, William. River Horse. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.

Kaplan, Robert D. An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Manning, Richard. Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie. New York: Penguin, 1995.

McMurtry, Larry. How the West Was Won or Lost. The New Republic October 22, 1990: 32-38.

McMurtry, Larry. . New York: New York Review of Books, 2004. Moulton, Gary E., Ed. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Plotz, David. Lewis and Clark: Stop celebrating. They don't matter.. Slate 16 August 2002.

Reisner, Marc.Cadillac Desert:The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Roger, Tod. Bicycle Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail. Hartford: Deerfoot Publications, 2000.

Stegner, Wallace. The American West as Living Space. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1987.


Museum Exhibits
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Treaties Between the U.S. and Native Americans

Harvard's Peabody Museum - The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark

Joslyn Art Museum's Western American Collection

Missouri Historical Society - The National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Exhibition


Classroom Resources
The National Archives' Constitution Community Lesson Plan: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Univ. of Washington Department of History's Lewis and Clark Curriculum Document


Sites
American Rivers' resources on the Missouri River

The Center of the American West @ the University of Colorado-Boulder

Discovering Lewis & Clark

Exploring the West from Monticello

Lewis & Clark in Missouri

The Lewis & Clark Trail by Bicycle

The Lewis and Clark Trail: Re-live the Adventure...

The Sierra Club's Lewis & Clark Campaign: In the Footsteps of Lewis & Clark

Missouri State Park: The Katy Trail

The National Park Service: Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

PBS Online's Companion Site to the Ken Burns Film, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

The Savvy Traveler

South Carolina's Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Trail Quotes. (Compiled by Jim Schmid, 2001.)

Today With Lewis & Clark

The University of Wyoming News Service's Lewis & Clark Radio Journals


Sounds
All Things Considered
    Spirit Mound Program

Corps of Discovery: An Opera in Three Acts. Eric Dillner, Producer
    Let Us Go Forth
    Shannon's Aria


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