The Trail Between the Rivers
by Ted S. Hall
Category: Idaho

Something "new" and a largely "untold-in-detail-until-now" element about the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition -- the story of their arduous trek by land rather than by river between Lemhi Pass at the headwaters of the Missouri River to the Weippe Prairie at the headwaters of the mighty Columbia River -- unfolds in this big, all color book. Author Ted Hall spent more than seven years personally reconnoitering the area involved and studying this aspect of the Corps of Discovery's trip. He literally used a professional engineer's skills to "track" the Expedition across "these terrible mountains" to give contemporary insight into the hardships -- and almost fatal hazaards they encounted in this part of their epic trip. So insightful is Hall's approach that a major American historian has labeled his book "a definitive account of this heretofore overlooked region."