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Book Notes
Compiled and written by Ken DuBois
| Beyond Lewis and Clark: The Army Explores the West, by James P. Ronda (Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, 2003. Photographs, illustrations, maps, notes. 128 pages. $14.95 paper.)
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Based on the exhibition of the same name, James Ronda's book uses the Lewis and Clark journey as a starting point for a discussion of the U.S. Army's nineteenth-century exploration of the West, primarily from 1803 to the late 1870s. The growth of the western empire is explained in stories of the soldier-explorers Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Stephen H. Long, John Charles Frémont, William H. Emory, and George M. Wheeler. |
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| Seduced by the West: Jefferson's America and the Lure of the Land beyond the Mississippi, by Laurie Winn Carlson (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 2003. Maps, notes, index. 238 pages. $26.00 cloth.)
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Carlson breaks no new ground with her assertions that Thomas Jefferson intended the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a means of seizing western lands from foreign powers, but the author then takes the idea a step further. The expedition, she contends, may have been planned as a show of power meant to provoke war with Spain. |
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| Common to This Country: Botanical Discoveries of Lewis and Clark, by Susan H. Munger, illustrated by Charlotte Staub Thomas (Artisan, New York, 2003. Illustrations, bibliography. 128 pages. $22.95 cloth.)
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Featuring twenty-five indigenous American plants from the Lewis and Clark Trail, this work also includes excerpts from the expedition journals to show the explorers' impressions of specimens as they first encountered them. The book is illustrated with traditional plant-specimen watercolors and includes detailed notes, including information on which plants may be cultivated in readers' own gardens. |
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| George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807–1810, by M.O. Skarsten (Arthur H. Clark, Spokane, Wash., 2003. Illustrations, map, bibliography, index. 354 pages. $42.50 cloth.)
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Drouillard played a significant role in the expedition, with responsibilities that included recruiting personnel, trading horses for canoes, and serving as a diplomat to tribal leaders. His contributions to the Corps of Discovery are detailed in this biography, which was first published in 1964. The new edition includes an introduction by historian Robert C. Carriker. |
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CorrectionsThe Summer 2004 OHQ included an error on the Contributors page. We wrote that Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham received his undergraduate degree from the University of Portland. He actually received his B.A. from the University of Oregon. We regret the error.
"Peeling Off the Emulson" in the Spring 2004 issue includes a discrepancy between the caption for the photograph on page 128 and the text in identifying the location of the building depicted in the image. The caption is correct in identifying the location as Southwest Second and Washington.
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