{"product_id":"the-journals-of-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition-volume-2-august-30-1803august-24-1804","title":"The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  Volume 2: August 30  1803-August 24  1804","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The journey of the Corps of Discovery  under the command of Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark  across the American West to the Pacific Ocean and back in the years 1804-1806 seems to me to have been our first really American adventure  one that also produced our only really American epic  The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  now at last available in a superbly edited  easily read edition in twelve volumes (of an eventual thirteen)  almost two centuries after the Corps of Discovery set out. . . . This important text has not been fully appreciated for what it is because of two centuries of incomplete and inadequate editing. All three editions previous to this excellent one from the University of Nebraska . . . were flawed by significant omission. . . . Thus my gratitude to the present editor  Gary Moulton  and his assistant editor  Thomas Dunlay  for bringing what I believe to be a national epic into plain view at last. . . . For almost two hundred years their Lewis and Clarks 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. When the Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition appeared in 1983  critics hailed it as a publishing landmark. This eagerly awaited second volume of the new Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition begins the actual journals of those explorers whose epic expedition still enthralls Americans. Instructed by President Jefferson to keep meticulous records bearing on the geography  ethnology  and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West  Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and four of their men filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations during their expedition of 18046. The result was in is a national treasure: a complete look at the Great Plains  the Rockies  and the Pacific Northwest  reported by men who were intelligent and well-prepared  at a time when almost nothing was known about those regions so newly acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. Volume 2 includes Lewiss and Clarks journals for the period from August 1803  when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down the Ohio River  to August 1804  when the Corps of Discovery camped near the Vermillion River in present South Dakota. The general introduction by Gary E. Moulton discusses the history of the expedition  the journal-keeping methods of Lewis and Clark  and the editing and publishing history of the journals from the time of Lewis and Clarks return. Superseding the last edition published early in this century  the current edition brings together new materials discovered since then. It greatly expands and updates the annotation to take account of the most recent scholarship on the many subjects touched on by the journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44950153789493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0803228694","price":223.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780803228696.jpg?v=1770098636","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-journals-of-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition-volume-2-august-30-1803august-24-1804","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}