Books for adult readers
Hoxie, Frederick E. & Jay T. Nelson. Eds., Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American
Perspective (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008). This book is authored by the curator of the Newberry
Library exhibit and the traveling exhibition for libraries.
Mack, Richard. The Lewis & Clark Trail: American Landscapes. (Evanston, IL: Quiet Light Publishing, 2004).
Richard Mack’s photographs are featured as the background images for the traveling exhibition. This book contains
248 color photographs taken by Mack during two years of photographing places along the Lewis and Clark trail at
the same time of the year the explorers would have been there.
(Book lists provided by the Newberry Library)
Abbot, Carl. The Great Extravaganza: Portland and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Portland: Oregon
Historical Society, 1981).
Allen, John Logan. Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest.
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975).
Ambrose, Stephen E. An Epic American Exploration: The Friendship of Lewis and Clark. (Minneapolis:
Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1998).
--------. Lewis and Clark: Voyage of Discovery. (Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1998).
--------. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. (Simon
& Schuster, 1996).
Anderson, Sarah Lewis Travers. Lewises, Meriwethers and Their Kin. (Richmond: Dietz Press, 1938).
Aoki, Haruo & Deward Walker. Nez Perce Oral Narratives. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
Appleman, Roy E. Lewis and Clark: Historic Places Associated with Their Transcontinental Exploration (18041806). Robert G. Ferris, series ed. National Historic Sites and Buildings, series. (Washington D.C.: U.S. Dept. of
the Interior, National Park Service, 1975).
Baird, Dennis, Diane Mallickan & W.R. Swagerty. Eds., Nez Perce Nation Divided: Firsthand Accounts of Events
Leading to the 1863 Treaty (Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 2002).
Betts, Robert B. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark. (Boulder: Colorado
Associated University Press, 2000).
Biddle, Nicholas, ed. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. 2 vols.
(Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814).
Botkin, Daniel. Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995).
Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950).
Boyd, Robert. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline
among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999).
Breitbart, Eric. A World on Display: Photographs from the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904. (Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1997).
Burroughs, Raymond Darwin. The Natural History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (East Lansing: Michigan
State University Press, 1961).
Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians, 2 vols.
(New York: Dover Publications, 1973).
--------. Souvenir of the North American Indians as they were in the middle of the 19th Century. (London: 1852).
Chuinard, Eldon G. Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Fairfield, WA:
Ye Galleon Press, 1979).
Clark, Ella E. Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953).
Clark, Ella E. & Margot Edmonds. Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1979).
Clarke, Charles G. The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Members
and A Composite Diary of All Their Activities from All the Known Sources. (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1970).
Cornelison, J.M. Weyekin Stories (Titwatit Stories). (San Francisco: E.L. Mackey & Co., 1911).
Coues, Elliot. Ed., The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson, 3 vols. (New York, 1897).
--------. The History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri River,
Thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia river to the Pacific Ocean, Performed during the Years
1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the United States (New York, 1893).
Cutright, Paul Russell. A History of the Lewis and Clark Journals. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1976).
--------. Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969).
Dillon, Richard. Meriwether Lewis: A Biography. (New York: Coward-McCann, 1965).
Doty, James. Journal of Operations of Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens of Washington Territory in 1855. (Fairfield,
WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1978).
Drury, Clifford M. Chief Lawyer of the Nez Perce Indians, 1796-1876. (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1979).
Duncan, Dayton. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History. (New York:
Knopf, 1997).
--------. Out West: An American Journey. (New York: Viking Press, 1987).
Eide, Ingavard Henry. American Odyssey: The Journey of Lewis and Clark. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1979).
Farr, William. Reservation Blackfeet, 1882-1945, A Photographic History of Cultural Survival (Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 1984).
Foley, William E. & Charles David Rice. The First Chouteaus. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).
Furtwangler, Albert. Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals. (Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1993).
Gilman, Carolyn. The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920. (St. Paul:
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987).
--------. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide. (New York: HarperCollins, 2003).
Goetzmann, William. Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American
West. (New York: Knopf, 1966).
Grafe, Steven L. Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898-1915 (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2006).
Gunderson, Mary. The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark: With Contemporary Recipes. (Yankton, SD: History
Cooks, 2002).
Hafer, LeRoy. Ed. The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. 10 vols. (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark,
1965-72).
Hall, Brian. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark.. (New York: Viking,
2003).
Hawke, David Freeman. Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (New York:
Norton, 1980).
Haynes, John. The Forgotten People: The Story of the Fort Berthold Indian Mission, 1876-1985. (Exeter: A.
Wheaton & Co., 1987).
Hebard, Grace Raymond. Sacajawea, A Guide and Interpreter of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with an Account
of the Travels of Toussaint Charbonneau, and of Jean Baptiste, the Expedition Papoose. (Glendale: Arthur H.
Clark, 1933).
Holloway, David. Lewis and Clark and the Crossing of North America. (New York: Saturday Review Press,
1974).
Hosmer, James Kendall, ed. Gass’s Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: By Sergeant Patrick Gass, One of
the Persons Employed in the Expedition. 1811. (Reprint, Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1904).
Howard, Harold P. Sacajawea. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971).
Hoxie, Frederick E. & Jay T. Nelson. Eds., Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American
Perspective (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
Hult, Ruby El. Guns of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1960).
Hunn, Eugene S. & James Selam and Family. Nch’I Wana, “The Big River”: Mid-Columbia Indians and their
Land. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990).
Hunsaker, Joyce Badgley. Sacajawea Speaks: Beyond the Shining Mountains with Lewis & Clark. (Falcon, 2001).
Jackson, Donald. Among the Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces on Lewis and Clark. (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1981).
--------, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 2 vols. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978).
--------. Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1981).
Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. (Paris: Pierres, 1782).
Jones, Landon Y., ed. The Essential Lewis and Clark. (New York: Ecco Press, 2000).
--------. William Clark and the Shaping of the West. (University of Missouri Press, 2004).
Karson, Jennifer. Wiyaxayxt/Wiyaakaa’awn/As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, Our People – The Cayuse,
Umatilla, and Walla Walla (Oregon Historical Society Press, 2006).
Kessler, Donna J. The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 1996).
Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent. (New York: Harper and
Row, 1989).
MaCapia, Paul & Mary MaCapia. Lewis and Clark’s America: A Contemporary Photo Essay. (Seattle, 1976).
Madsen, Birgham D. The Lemhi: Sacajawea’s People. (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1979).
McBeth, Kate. Nez Perces Since Lewis and Clark, (Moscow, ID: University of Idaho Press, 1993).
McWhorter, L.V. Hear Me, My Chief! Nez Perce History and Legend. (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1952).
Moore, Robert J., Jr. and Michael Haynes. Lewis & Clark Tailor Made, Trail Worn Army Life, Clothing, & Weapons
of the Corps of Discovery. (Helena, MT: Farcountry Press, 2004).
Morris, Larry E. The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark After the Expedition. (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2004).
Moulton, Gary. Ed., The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 13 vol. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1983-2001.
--------. American Encounters: Lewis & Clark, the People, & the Land. (Lincoln: Center for Great Plains Studies,
University of Nebraska, 1991).
--------, ed. Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983).
Murphy, Dan. Lewis and Clark: Voyages of Discovery. (Las Vegas: KC Publications, 1977).
Nez Perce Tribe. Treaties: Nez Perce Perspectives. (Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 2003).
Nelson, W. Dale. Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.
(University of North Texas Press, 2004).
Nicandri, David L. Northwest Chiefs: Gustav Sohon’s Views of the 1855 Stevens Treaty Councils. (Tacoma:
Washington State Historical Society, 1986).
Olmstead, Gerald W. Fielding’s Lewis and Clark Trail. (New York: Fielding’s Travel Books, 1986).
Osgood, Ernest Staples. The Field Notes of Captain William Clark, 1803-1805. (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1964).
Peck, David J. D.O. Or Perish in the Attempt—Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Helena,
MT: Far Country Press)
Pollard, Lancaster. Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop, 1805-1806. (Astoria: Clatsop Historical Society, 1954).
Potter, Tracy. Sheheke: Mandan Indian Diplomat: The Story of White Coyote, Thomas Jefferson, and Lewis and
Clark (Washburn, ND: Fort Mandan Press, 2003).
Ray, Verne F. Lewis and Clark and the Nez Perce Indians. (Washington D.C.: Westerners, 1971).
Rees, John E. Madame Charbonneau: The Indian Woman Who Accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
(Idaho: Lemhi County Historical Society, 1970).
Richards, Kent D. Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry. (Provo, UT: Brigham young University Press, 1979).
Rogers, Ann. Lewis and Clark in Missouri. (St. Louis: Meredco, 1981).
Ronda, James. Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984).
--------. Finding the West: Explorations With Lewis and Clark (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
2001).
--------, ed. Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Helena: Montana Historical Society
Press, 1998).
Rosier, Paul. Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
Ruby, Robert H. and John A. Brown. The Chinook Indians: traders of the Lower Columbia River (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1976).
Satterfield, Archie. The Lewis and Clark Trail. (Harrisburg, Penn: Stachpole Books, 1978).
Schanzer, Rosalyn. How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark. (Washington D.C.: National
Geographic Society, 1997).
Schmidt, Thomas. The Saga of Lewis and Clark: Into the Uncharted West. (New York: DK Pub., 1999).
Schultz, James Willand. Signposts of Adventure: Glacier National Park as the Indians Know It. (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1926).
--------. Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916).
Skarsten, M. O. George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810.
(Glendale: A.H. Clark Co., 1964).
Snyder, Gerald S. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark. (Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1970).
Space, Ralph. Lewis and Clark through Idaho. (Lewiston, ID: Tribune Publishing Co, 1964).
--------. The Lolo Trail: A History of Events Connected with the Lolo Trail Since Lewis and Clark. (Lewiston, ID:
Printcraft Printing, 1970).
Steffan, Jerome O. William Clark: Jeffersonian Man on the Frontier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1977).
Strong, Emory M. Seeking Western Waters: The Lewis and Clark Trail from the Rockies to the Pacific. (Portland:
Oregon Historical Society, 1995).
Tchakmakian, Pascal. The Great Retreat: The Nez Perces War in Words and Pictures. (San Francisco: Chronicle,
1976).
Thwaites, Reuben. Ed., Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 (New York, 1904-5).
Uhlenbeck, C.C. A New Series of Blackfoot Texts from the Southern Piegans, Blackfoot Reservation, Teton County,
Montana. (Amsterdam: Johannes Muller, 1912).
Walker, Deward. Nez Perce Coyote Tails: The Myth Cycle (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998).
West, Helen B. Meriwether Lewis in Blackfeet Country. (Browning, MT: Museum of the Plains Indians, Blackfeet
Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1964).
Wheeler, Olin D. The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904, 2 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1904).
Wilson, Gilbert. The Hidatsa Earthlodge. (New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1934).
Wishart, David J. The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979).
Wood, W. Raymond & Thomas D. Thiessen. Eds., Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains: Canadian Traders
among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738-1818 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985).
Wood, Raymond W. Anthropology of the Great Plains. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980).
Young Bird, Bernadine. Coordinator, History and Culture of the Three Affiliated Tribes: Mandan, Hidatsa and
Arikara Resource Guide (North Dakota: Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Education Dept., 1994).