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Canada and the United States

James P. Ronda. Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark. (Histories of the American Frontier.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2001. Pp. xxii, 138. $22.95.

In the twentieth and now the twenty-first century, perhaps no American historical subject, save Abraham Lincoln, has drawn as much scholarly and popular attention as the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804–1806) from Wood River in southern Illinois to the mouth of the Columbia River and back. But this has not always been the case. Narrowly viewed, President Thomas Jefferson's "Corps of Discovery" failed, in that it did not find the long-sought water passage through the West. At the urging of his attorney-general, the president, fortunately, had also instructed William Clark and Meriwether Lewis on the importance of collecting information about plants, animals, cultures, places, and languages. When they returned, James P. Ronda maintains, Jefferson tried to transcend failure by creatively redefining the mission. The enterprise had been about scientific information. In 1816, when Jefferson summed up what he thought were legal grounds for American rights on the Northwest Coast, he did not even mention Lewis and Clark. . . .

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