Exploring Lewis and Clark

“Scintillating… . Delves deep and asks questions that will forever change [our] reading of these men.” —Newsday

“Adds new and fascinating dimensions to our appreciation of the Corps of Discovery and their brave trek through the American West.” —The Times-Picayune

“A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in considering the thorniest questions within it.” —The Washington Post

“Slaughter successfully achieves his goal of delving beneath the surface of the journals…Raise[s] interesting questions about Lewis and Clark, and shows that we shouldn’t take everything we read in the journals as truth.” —The Seattle Times

“Fascinating… Through close attention to the explorers’ own accounts of their journey, Slaughter probes the threats that confronted Lewis and Clark at every turn.” – The Times-Picayune

Thomas P. Slaughter is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the award-winning author of three previous books—most recently, The Natures of John and William Bartram—and is the editor of three others, including the Library of America edition of William Bartram’s Travels and Other Writings. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and two children.

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