Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-04

should, the imperial dimensions of
that vast domain or its real present
and future greatness, without some
knowledge of tha wonderful explora-
ton of Lewis and Clark in 1904 6.
That historic expedition consisting
OF As men Cater, at Fort Mindan, re-
duced to 81 men and lndIan woman
with her three months papoose) left
St. LOUIS, assembled the Missouri rive:
to its headquarters, crossed the noun
tains to the Columbia, and descended
turned, within less than two years and
\ half. One winter they spent in
North Dakota, near Bismarck, and
another in Oregon, near Astoria.
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 novel.
There been recently issued several
reprints of the old. original Lewis and
Clark report of 1914, which was not,
by any means, publication OF the
real Journals OF the explorers, but an
edited edition OF them by outsiders,
and it was incomplete and defective in
many ways. Other publications re-
lttlng. to the expedition have also
been issued recently sone OF which,
published by q. p: Putnam's Sons,
New York, stands peculiarly and I'M
lquely alone. This edition is Il two
volume, 8 We enc, called "The Trail OF
Lewis and Clark, 1904 1904 The
author, Mr.. DIN u. Wheeler, is we'll
known writer of the popular Wonder
land series OF the Northern Pacific Rail.
way, in connection with which he
made his studies aud researches for
for this more pretentious work.
Mr.. Wheeler has Travelled several
thousand miles over the old route Of
Lewis and Clark, on railway trains
and steamboats,, in rowboats, aioot, on
horseback and in buggies or wagons.
he has travelled with pack trains,
camped out, and climbed mountains,
IN following the old Indian trails that
the explorers followed and in visiting
remote points made memorable by
them he has sojourned among Indian
tribes, some OF them now almost eX
tinct, that Lewis and Clark visited,
and he has talked tn one squaw
who as child, saw Lewis and Clark.
The explorers route across the Bit
ter Root mountains, from the head
waters of the Missouri river to the
sources of the Snake river and thence
to the kooskooske, or Clearwater
river, which has always been an I'M
solved problem full OF uncertainties
and gaps, has been carefully followed
and completely solved and mapped.
THE Trails of Lewis ard Clark" is
paintings, drawings, and maps made
under Mr.. Wheeer's direction, AID
from photographs taken by PROBES.
sional photo graphs who accompanied
him for the purpose. The work is
not made up OF quotations from the
Lewis and CLARK report with anno-
tated comments, but the writer tells
his own story and supplements it with
with brie. and pertinent extracts from
Lewis and Clark, Gass,-one of the
Srrgeants of Lewis and Clark whose
| journal was Notwithstanding,
Bradbury, Macmillan, CatIin, Henry,
Chittenden and host OF other histor-
ical and narrative writers that con
meet the past with the present.
The original manuscript journals OF
Lewis and Clark were studied by the
author, and exact excerpts and photo
graphic reproductions, in half tone, of
their pages and drawings are given. A
chapter is devoted to the Louisiana
Purchase, another to the preparatory
measures for the exploration, and yet
another to the history OF each man OF
the expedition so far rs known, in
GLIDING detailed discussion of the
causes and circumstances of the death
of Captain Lewis.
There is gathered within the covers
able, vast amount OF history of each
narrative and incident Of the last CEN
fury that is OF great value, is almost
unknown to the present generation
and practically, is inaccessible to them.
the louisiana PuIchsse Exposition
Mt st. Louis and Clark Centennial to be
held at Portland, Oregon, in 1905, to
commemorate the great exploration
t'elf, make this work by Mr. Wheeler
regularly timely and apropos, be-
cause it is written by the only person
who, from actual travel over, and in
vestlgation Of, the l. wis and Clark
route, can write from the standpoint
of actual knowledge Of past and pre-
sent conditions of the old trail and
country.
THE Trail of Lewis and Clark"
should be found in every public and
private library in the land, not only
for purposes as reference for student,
but for use of the general reader, who
will find in reading through its pages
of large, clear type that truth is, in
deed, stranger that fiction.