From Library Journal
The only surviving journal by a private in the Lewis and Clark expedition is that of Joseph Whitehouse, which is in two versions: an original that goes to November 1805 and a fuller and longer paraphrased version (extending to April 1806) discovered in 1966, known as the "fair" copy. Editor Moulton (history, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln) has arranged the paraphrased entry after the original entry of the same date. As with the earlier volumes of the journals (LJ 3/1/87), this volume is fully annotated, although Moulton refers readers to those volumes if the annotation would simply repeat an earlier one. This definitive edition is essential for academic libraries and others interested in the exploration of the West.?Stephen H. Peters, Northern Michigan Univ. Lib., Marquette
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Review
"The University of Nebraska Press has become the pre-eminent publisher of Lewis and Clark titles, including what is now considered the definitive edition of the journals edited by Nebraska history professor Gary Moulton."—John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
"Moulton not only edited the transcriptions of the journal entries; he also provided a detailed index and oversaw a team of consultants who provided expert annotations on botany, zoology, astronomy, archaeology, linguists and medicine. As a result, readers can understand the expedition in its full context. It''s no wonder that the series has received many plaudits."—Omaha World Herald
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Omaha World Herald )
"[This edition] stands as one of the great accomplishments of American scholarship and scholarly publishing alike. The work of historian Gary Moulton and a team of some three dozen specialists working through the University of Nebraska''s Center for Great Plains Studies with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the 13-volume Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was published by the University of Nebraska Press from 1983 to 2001."—Gregory McNamee, Washington Post Book World
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Washington Post Book World )
"Lewis and Clark loom over the narrative literature of the West as the Rockies loom over the rivers that run through them. These Journals are to the narrative of the American West as the Iliad is to the epic or as Don Quixote is to the novel: a first exemplar so great as to contain in embryo the genre''s full potential. The narrative writing about the West that came before Lewis and Clark seems fragmentary and slight; what came after them seems insipid and slight, lacking both the scale and the force of those Journals."—Larry McMurtry in the New York Review of Books
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New York Review of Books )
"Meticulously edited, with detailed (and absolutely necessary) footnotes, these volumes are a triumph of scholarly publishing. . . . One version or another belongs on most readers'' shelves—and should accompany any road trip through the West."—Atlantic Monthly
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Atlantic Monthly )
