Finding the West
Subtitle: explorations with Lewis and Clark
By: James P. Ronda.
Series: Histories of the American frontier
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Literary art.; Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Literary art.; Storytelling -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; Frontier and pioneer life in literature.; West (U.S.) -- Folklore.; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Folklore.
Description: "One of the foremost historians of Lewis and Clark, Ronda grounds Finding the West in the insights and reflections he has gleaned from some twenty years of research and writing about this pivotal era. But above all else, Ronda's book is centered on stories and storytellers. As he writes: "This is a book about many storytellers.

Their words are French-Canadian, Shoshone, New Hampshire English, Hidatsa, and Chinookan." Ronda documents not only the stories that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals and reports and on their maps."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.