River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
David L. Nicandriis director of the Washington State Historical  Society. He is the Executive Editor ofColumbia Magazineand  author of many books and articles.Clay S. Jenkinson, well known for his historical portrayals of Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis, is the editor ofA Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804–1806and author ofBecoming Jefferson's People: Re-inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-first Century.