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What Lewis and Clark and their party finally found--although they didn't know it at the time--was not a path between the oceans but a story whose power to challenge and absorb would bridge the more profound gap between their day and ours, between that age of new...
And few that are so perennially relevant, as demonstrated by the effort to prepare for the expedition's bicentennial, beginning this January. In the 11 states whose land and waterways the explorers touched, plans have been under way for several years to re-create, commemorate and just plain profit from...
"If the expedition was just about a grand trip across the West, as great as that would be, it wouldn't capture my attention or the attention of so many Americans," says Gary Moulton, history professor at the University of Nebraska and editor of the 13-volume set The Journals...
"A hundred years ago," says James Ronda, professor of western American history at the University of Tulsa, "Lewis and Clark were viewed as symbols of industrial expansion, overseas imperial trade and so on. Fifty years ago, they were really viewed as cold warriors in the forest; they epitomized the virtues...
Lewis and Clark saw themselves as Army officers. Their instructions from their Commander in Chief were clear, and the spirit behind them was practical, not poetic: claim the West and its wealth for the U.S. With Spain to the south and Britain to the north and everything in the middle...