Journals of the
Lewis & Clark Expedition

Books & Articles

The following list of recommended readings has been been prepared by the University of Nebraska Press in consultation with Advisory Board member James Ronda.

Books

• Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
• "The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark across the Continent." by David Lavender. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
• "Lewis and Clark among the Indians." by James P. Ronda. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Articles

• "Horizons of the Sublime: The Invention of the Romantic West." by John L. Allen in Journal of Historical Geography [Great Britain] 18.1 (1992): 27–40.
• "Lewis [and] Clark on the Upper Missouri: Decision at the Marias." by John L. Allen in Montana 21.3 (1971): 2–17.
• "New World Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains of North America." by John L. Allen in Great Plains Quarterly 13.2 (1993): 69–80.
• "Pelts, Provisions and Perceptions: The Hudson's Bay Company Mandan Indian Trade, 1795–1812." by John A. Alwin in Montana 29.3 (1979): 16–27.
• "The Case of the Clark Papers." by Robert H. Bahmer in American Archivist 19.1 (1956): 19–22.
• "The Scientific Instruments of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." by Silvio A. Bedini in Great Plains Quarterly 4.1 (1984): 54–69.
• "Mapping the Marias: The Interface of Native and Scientific Cartographies." by Barbara Belyea in Great Plains Quarterly 17.3-4 (1997): 165–84.
• "Great Plains Native American Representations along the Lewis and Clark Trail." by Kevin S. Blake in Great Plains Quarterly 24.2 (2004): 263–82.
• "A Glossary of Native American Toponyms and Ethnonyms from the Lewis and Clark Journals." by William Bright in Names 52.3 (2004): 163–237.
• "Lewis and Clark's Route Map: James Mackay's Map of the Missouri River." by Thomas C. Danisi and W. Raymond Wood in Western Historical Quarterly 35.1 (2004): 53–72.
• "Exploration in a Continental Climate: Weather in the Central Plains Recorded in the Journal of William Clark." by Karen Jean DeBres in Heritage of The Great Plains 37.1 (2004): 63–74.
• "An Inference Regarding the Expedition of Lewis and Clark." by Bernard DeVoto in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 99.4 (1955): 185–94.
• "Friends and Partners: William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, and Mid-America's French Creoles." by William E. Foley in Missouri Historical Review 2004 98(4): 270–82.
• "Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and the Reduction of the United States Army." by Donald Jackson in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124.2 (1980): 91–96.
• "The Race to Publish Lewis and Clark." by Donald Jackson in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 85.2 (1961): 163–77.
• "Against the Undertow of Myth: The Uncertainties of Lewis and Clark in North Dakota." by Clay S. Jenkinson in North Dakota Quarterly 71.2 (2004): 6–27.
• "The Missing Journals of Meriwether Lewis" by Gary E. Moulton. Originally published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History 35, no.3 (1985): 28–39.
• "The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Almost Home" by Gary E. Moulton. Originally published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History 48, no.2 (1998): 72–79.
• "The Evolving Landscape of the Columbia River Gorge: Lewis and Clark and Cataclysms on the Columbia." by Jim E. O'Connor in Oregon Historical Quarterly 105.3 (2004): 390–421.
• "Exploring the Explorers: Great Plains Peoples and the Lewis and Clark Expedition." by James P. Ronda in Great Plains Quarterly 13.2 (1993): 81–90.
• "The Press Response to the Corps of Discovery: The Making of Heroes in an Egalitarian Age." by Betty Houchin Winfield in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 80.4 (2003): 866–83.

Off Site Articles

• "An Analysis of the Exploratory Process: The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806." by John L. Allen in Geographical Review 62:1 (1972): 13–39.

Additional Readings

The following recommended readings are not currently online. Please check your local library for availability.

• "Landscape Change at the Confluence: From Lewis and Clark to the Present" by John L. Allen in North Dakota History 69.2–4 (2002): 2–23.
• "Snake Frontiers: The Eastern Shoshones in the Eighteenth Century" by Colin G. Calloway in Annals of Wyoming 63.3 (1991): 82–92.
• "Some Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" by Cindy Fent in North Dakota History 53.1 (1986): 24–28.
• "'To Acquire What Knolege You Can': The Scientific Contributions of Lewis and Clark" by Robert McCracken Peck in South Dakota History 34.1 (2004): 5–27.
• "An Introduction to the History of the Fur Trade on the Northern Plains" by W. Raymond Wood in North Dakota History 61.3 (1994): 2–6.
• "John Thomas Evans: An Overlooked Precursor to Lewis and Clark" by W. Raymond Wood in North Dakota History 68.2 (2001): 27–37.