Exploring Lewis and Clark
Subtitle: reflections on men and wilderness
By: Thomas P. Slaughter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.; Clark, William, 1770-1838.; Sacagawea.; York, ca. 1775-ca. 1815.; Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; Wilderness areas -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration.; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Exploring Lewis and Clark probes beneath the traditional narrative of the journey, looking beyond the perspectives of the explorers themselves to those of the woman and the men who accompanied them, as well as of the Indians who met them along the way. It reexamines the journals and what they suggest about Lewis's and Clark's misinterpretations of the worlds they passed through and the people in them.

Thomas Slaughter portrays Lewis and Clark not as heroes but as men - brave, bound by cultural prejudices and blindly hell-bent on achieving their goal. He searches for the woman Sacajawea rather than the icon that she has become. He seeks the historical rather than the legendary York, Clark's slave. He discovers what the various tribes made of the expedition, including the notion that this multiracial, multiethnic group was embarked on a search for spiritual meaning."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index.