Dear brother
Subtitle: letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark
By: edited and with an introduction by James J. Holmberg ; foreword by James P. Ronda.
Contributors: Clark, Jonathan, 1750-1811.; Holmberg, James J. 1958-; Filson Historical Society.
Series: Yale Western Americana series
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Clark, William, 1770-1838 -- Correspondence.; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.; York, ca. 1775-ca. 1815.; Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Correspondence.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770-1838) wrote at least forty-six letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition.

This book publishes all of these letters, most for the first time, revealing important details about the expedition, the mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis, the status of Clark's slave York (the first African American known to have crossed the continent from coast to coast), and other matters of historical significance.".

"There are letters concerning the establishing of the Corps of Discovery's first winter camp in December 1803, preparations for setting out into the country west of Fort Mandan in 1805, and Clark's fossil dig at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, in 1807. There are also letters about Lewis's disturbed final days that shed light on whether he committed suicide or was murdered.

Still other letters chronicle the fate of York after the expedition; we learn the details of Clark and York's falling out and subsequent alienation. Together the letters and the richly informative introductions and annotations by James J. Holmberg provide valuable insights into the lives of Lewis and Clark and the world of Jeffersonian America."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index.
"Published in association with the Filson Historical Society".
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1 "The Sport of Fortune":; title: Prologue to Exploration, 1792-1802; title: Chapter 2 "What We Are About":; title: The Expedition Years, 1803-1807; title: Chapter 3 "I Wish You to See & Know All":; title: Life in St. Louis, 1808-1809; title: Chapter 4 "What Will Be the Consequence?":; title: A Good Friend Lost, 1809-1810; title: Chapter 5 "We Are Striving to Get Along as; title: Well as We Can": Territorial Leader; title: and Entrepreneur, 1810-1811; title: Appendix "You Shall Hear from Me Often":; title: Letters to Fanny Clark O'Fallon,; title: Edmund Clark, and John H. Clark,; title: 1795-1811; title: Sources Cited; title: Index.