Background and Significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Boorstin, Daniel. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson: With a New Preface. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Cornell, Saul. Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Davis, James E., Frontier Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. New York: Hill &Wang, 2001.

Horsman, Reginald. The Frontier in the Formative Years, 1783-1815. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Jackson, Donald, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1783-1854, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962.

Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Jensen, Merrill. The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Malone, Dumas. Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974.

Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. New York: The Free Press, a Division of Macmillan Publishing, 1977.

Onuf, Peter S. Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.

The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

Ronda, James P. Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Sharp, James Roger. American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973.

Charting Terrae Incognitae: Lewis and Clark and the Mapping of the West

Alien, John Logan. Discovering Lewis and Clark, http://www.lewis-clark.org. Go to "Discovery Paths," click on "Geography" and then on "Mapping Unknown Lands."

Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Images of the American Northwest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press: 1975; reprinted as Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. New York: Dover Publications, 1991.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983.

Jackson, Donald, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: With Related Documents 1783-1854, 2nd edition, 2 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

Lewis, G. Malcolm, ed. Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Moulton, Gary ed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 11 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984-99.

Ronda, James P. ed. Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Helena: Montana Historical Society, 1998.

We Proceeded On, November 2001, vol. 27, no. 4., "Celestial Navigation Basics," 12-18; "Revisiting Fort Mandan's Longitude," 19-26; and "Revisiting Fort Mandan's Latitude," 27-31.

Wilford, John Noble. The Mapmakers. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

Woodward, David and G. Malcolm Lewis, eds. The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, vol. 2, book 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country

Alien, John Logan. Passage Through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.

Davis, James E. Frontier Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Ekberg, Carl J. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Hartley, Robert E. Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country: The Little-Told Story. Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation, 2002.

Holmberg, James J., ed. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Jackson, Donald, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents, 1783-1854, 2 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

McDermott, John Francis, ed. Old Cahokia: A Narrative and Documents Illustrating the First Century of Its History. St. Louis: Historical Documents Foundation, 1949.

Moulton, Gary E., ed. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001, volume two and addendum A.

Osgood, Ernest Staples, ed. The Field Notes of Captain William Clark, 1803-1805. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Sparks, Everett L. "Where the Trail Begins: The Illinois Legacy to the Lewis and Clark Expedition." We Proceeded On, February 1988, 4-9.

A Geographer Looks at Lewis and Clark's Route and Its Later Impacts

Furtwangler, Albert. Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Hudson, John C. Plains Country Towns. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, I985.

Hudson, John C. "Towns of the Western Railroads," Great Plains Quarterly Il:1 (1982)41-54.

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.

Jackson, Donald, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Vance, James E. Jr. The North American Railroad: Its Origin Evolution and Geography. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Whebell, C.F.J. "Corridors: A Theory of Urban Systems," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1:59 (March 1969) 1-26.

64 Illustration credits: All illustrations are from the Illinois State Historical Library, unless otherwise noted.

Illustrations of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Thomas Jefferson courtesy: Dictionary of American Portraits, Dover Publications, Inc. 1967