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Book Notes
Compiled and written by Ken DuBois
| Sacagawea Speaks: Beyond the Shining Mountains with Lewis and Clark, by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker (Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2001. Photographs, illustrations, bibliography, index. 151 pages. $27.50 cloth.) and They Call Me Sacagawea, by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker (Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, Conn., 2003. Photographs, illustrations. 48 pages. $9.95 paper.)
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Both of these books by Joyce Badgley Hunsaker center on her fictional, first-person Sacagawea narrative, a monologue she originally performed on stage. Sacagawea Speaks is augmented by over a hundred photographs showing plant life along the Lewis and Clark trail and Native American artwork as well as excerpts from the explorers' journals, Corps of Discovery biographies, and a Shoshoni vocabulary section. They Call Me Sacagawea is an illustrated version of the same narrative, without the supporting material. |
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| Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World 1693–1740, by Donald T. Garate (University of Nevada Press, Reno, 2003. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 360 pages. $39.95 cloth.)
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One of many Basques who escaped poverty by joining his compatriots in the eighteenth-century Spanish colonies in America, Juan Bautista de Anza is portrayed in this biography as both emblematic and exceptional. De Anza helped develop Spain's empire and gained heroic status as a miner-turned-soldier devoted to maintaining order in the vast, turbulent territory that is present-day Arizona. |
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| Jewish Life in the American West, edited by Ava F. Kahn (Heyday Books, Berkeley, Calif., 2002. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. 144 pages. $22.50 paper.)
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Jews made important contributions to the settlement of the West, this book explains, as many came to America through San Francisco or Galveston, Texas, and became ranchers, miners, merchants, and cowboys. Originally created as a catalog for an exhibit at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, Kahn's book is illustrated with over fifty photographs showing this unique nineteenth-century melding of cultures and communities.
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| Discovering Lewis and Clark from the Air, by Joseph A. Mussulman, photographs by Jim Wark (Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula, Mont., 2004. Photographs, maps, index. 272 pages. $40.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.)
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The impact of human development is seen in all but 10 of the 111 color images in this collection, which offers an aerial tour of the Lewis and Clark route with corresponding journal excerpts and commentary. Nevertheless, the book's perspective — from thousands of feet in the air — does give readers a new way to see the route and to imagine the ordeal of navigating a serpentine series of waterways from coast to coast. |
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