| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Book Review

William Clark and the Shaping of the West. By Landon Y. Jones. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.)

Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. By William E. Foley. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. xiv + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

With the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition "proceeding on" in many parts of the country, both scholarly and popular presses have hurried to offer books for their reading publics. While Meriwether Lewis has received considerable attention, his partner has not. Only a brief study of Clark's life and a few scattered articles discuss his career. So these two biographies shift some of the attention from his fellow explorer and the expedition to Clark's contributions to national policies and western development. This is important, because Clark's contributions to government ideas about expansion and how to deal with the Native people had a long-range impact.

Unlike so much of the current fixation on the expedition, in William Clark and the Shaping of the West, Landon Y. Jones devotes only one of his ten chapters to that event. Instead he presents a chronological biography that begins with the 1749 entry of the Clark family into the Virginia Piedmont. He traces family migrations during the colonial era briefly, and uses family ties to focus the early chapters. For example, "Billy" spent much time and effort for several decades after independence supervising his brother George Rogers Clark's financial affairs because the older man had slipped into alcoholism.

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