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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 possibilities glimpsed and this one of unforeseen upheavals survived. By the time President Jefferson sent the captains up that muddy river and out of sight, the young nation already had a Constitution, but it lacked an epic. It had a government but no real identity. Lewis and Clark helped invent...
...there would still be stirring tales of exploration but none that turn on the exquisite irony of an adolescent Indian girl giving crucial advice to two male Army officers. There would still be images of frontier adversity but none so stunning as that of Lewis expecting to see a path to the Pacific but discovering endless ranks of mountains instead. There would still be historical markers on western highways but none that lead thousands of miles to the sea and allow the pilgrim at every stop to cross-reference the vista spread out before him with the written impressions...
Today their pathway through those mountains carries more mystique than any other ground over which they traveled, for its raw wildness is testament to the character of two cultures: the explorers who braved its hardships and the Native Americans who revere and conserve the path as a sacred gift. It remains today in virtually the same condition as when Lewis and Clark walked...
...dams offered protection to some 1.4 million acres of rich, river-hugging farmland, curtailed damaging floods and made it possible to hem in the shifting riverbanks with miles of concrete levees and retaining walls. And for the 10 million inhabitants now living and working along its 2,341-mile path, the multitasking Mo is a source of drinking water, electricity and irrigation and a resource for shipping, sport fishing and other recreation...
...Kirkus is stunned by "Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Path of the World's Most Precious Stones" by Greg Campbell (Westview; September), giving it a starred review. "The sorry role the diamond has played in the history of Sierra Leone, stunningly told by journalist Campbell ('The Road to Kosovo,' 1999)...Readers of Campbell's horrific tale - from killing fields to corporate boardrooms and all the seedy, murderous, and pathetic characters that fall between - who don't demand proof-of-source on any diamond purchase ought to have their ethics examined...