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Book Review
Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark. By James P. Ronda. Histories of the American Frontier Series (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xii + 138 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.95.)
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At the 2001 meeting of the Western History Association in San Diego, President James Ronda explained how he stumbled into the project that became his first major book, Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Lincoln, 1984) after having read John Logan Allen's Passage through the Garden (Urbana, 1975). Soon thereafter, the late Donald Jackson encouraged Ronda to transfer his research efforts from colonial American subjects to the early national West. Good advice, well-taken, for now Ronda is widely-recognized as the leading analyst of the expedition from its origins to its consequences. |
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