Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-06
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and future greatness, without some
knowledge of the wonderful explora-
ton of Lewis and Clark in 1S04-6.
That historic expedition consisting
of As men Cater, at Fort Mandan,, re-
duced to 81 men and / Indian woman
with her three months old papoose)
left st. Louis. assembled the Missouri
river to headwaters, crossed the
mountains to the Columbia, and
descended that stream to its mouth,
and returned, within less than two
years and a half. One winter they
spent in North Dakota, near Bismarck,
and another in Oregon, near Astoria. Z
The results of the exploration, the
valuable discoveries made, the mani
fold adventures met with, not only;
stamp the exploration as the greatest
of modern times, but render accounts
of it as interesting as a novel;.
There has recently been issued
several reprints of the old, original
Lewis and Clark report of 1914, which
was not, by any means, a publication
Of the real journals of the explorers,
but an edition of them by. outsiders,
and it was incomplete and defective
in many ways. Other publications re-
lating to the expedition have also been
Issued recently one of which, pub
lished by G. p. Putnam's Sons, New
York, stands peculiarly and uniquely
alone. This edition Is a two volume,
8 tvo one, called "The Trail OF Lewis
and Clark, 1S04-19o4."" The author,
Mr.. DIN D. Wheeler, is well known as
the writer Of the popular Wonderland
series Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
way, in connection with which he
made his studies and researches for
this more pretentious work. VI
Mr.. Wheeler has travelled several
thousand miles over the old route of
Lewis and Clark, on railway trains
and steamboats,, in row boats, afoot,
on horseback and in buggies or wag-
ons. He has Il travelled with pack
trains, scamped out, and climbed
mountains, in following the old Indian
trails that the explorers followed and
IL visiting remote points made men,
| orable by them. He has ssojourned
among Indian tribes, some OF them
now almost extinct, that Lewis and
Clark visited, and he has talked with
one old squaw who, as a child, saw
Lewis and Clark. s%$
The explorers route across the
Bitterroot mountains, from the head.
waters Of the Missouri river to the
sources Of the Snake river and thence
to the Gooskooske, or Clearwater
river, which has alwys been an un
solved problem full Of uncertainties
and gaps, has been carefully followed
and completely solved and mapped.
'The Trail Of Lewis and Clark is
illustrated in color and half tone from
paintings, drawings, and maps made
under Mr.. Wheeler's direction, and
from photographs taken by profession
al photographers who accompanied
him for the purpose The work is
not made up Of quotations from the
Lewis and Clark report with annotat
ed comments, but the writer tells his
own story and supplements it with
brief and pertinent extracts from
Lewis and Clark, Cass-one Of the
sergeants Of Lewis and Clark whose
journal was published
Bradbury, Maximilian, Catlin, Henry
Chittenden and host Of other histori
cal and narrative writer's that connect
the past with the present.
1 The original manuscript Journals o.
Lewis and Clark were studied by thu
author, and exact excerpts and photo
graphic reproductions, in half tone, O
their pages and drawings are given
I A chapter is devoted to the Louisian.
Purchase, another to the preparatory
4 measures for the exploration, and ye
another to the history Of each man 81
the expedition so far as known, in
Guiding 9 detailed discussion Of thu
causes and circumstances OF the dealt
| OF Captain Lewis. n
4 There is gathered within the covers
OF these volumes, and made available
q vast amount Of history, narrativ.
and incident Of the last century thai
IFS Of great value, is almost unknown
to the present generation and, practi
ca1ly, ID inaccessible to them.
4 The Louishna Purchase Exposition
at ST. Louis, and the Lewis and Clarl
4 Centennial to be held at Portland
| Oregon, "a 1905, to commemorate TIL
great exploration itself, make this
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