Shortest and Most Convenient Route : Lewis and Clark in Context Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 94, Part 5) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

Based on papers delivered at the Bicentennial Conference for Lewis Clark, held in Philadelphia in Aug. 2003, these essays grapple in different ways with the motives underlying the Corps of Discovery the impact on American culture. The question of failure is used by the authors as a means of interrogating the intellectual cultural context in which the expedition was framed in which its results were distributed. Contributors include Robert S. Cox (also the Ed. of the vol.), Domenic Vitiello, S.D. Kimmel, John W. Jengo, Brett Mizelle, Andrew J. Lewis. Illus.