Finding Lewis and Clark: Old Trails, New Directions James P. Ronda (editor). Nancy Tystad Koupal (editor). Print-version Price: $0.00 Paper 217 pages 6 x 9 inches 25 b&w photographs, 25 drawings, 3 maps ISBN: 0971517193 “Even an expert reader will find good reasons to pause and reconsider. . . . Lewis and Clark in fact followed old trails in new directions, and so do these writers. . . .”—Oregon Historical Quarterly “Some of the papers are standouts. Kastor summarizes clearly and concisely how the Louisiana Purchase affected the political context in which the expedition took place. . . . W. Raymond Wood is similarly clear and concise on the changing tribal relations Lewis and Clark encountered on the upper Missouri. Richard Etulain provides . . . the first survey I have seen that takes seriously the fiction inspired by the expedition. . . . Joseph A. Mussulman explains how his website, Discovering Lewis and Clark, developed. . . . To top it off, Elliott West’s fine essay tak[es] a step backward and ask[s] the inevitable question about the bicentennial hoopla: Has it ‘made the expedition seem more historically weighty than it truly was?’”—We Proceeded On Much has been written about the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, but there is still much more to explore. In Finding Lewis and Clark, nationally recognized Lewis and Clark scholar James P. Ronda identifies four compelling questions about the expedition: What is this expedition journey story really about? Who are all the characters in this story? What was the journey actually like? And, finally, what are the consequences of the expedition? In this book, historians such as Elliott West and William Foley join anthropologist W. Raymond Wood, art historian Joni Kinsey, naturalist Robert Peck, and others to explore these questions. Other contributors include Richard W. Etulain, Peter J. Kastor, Greg MacGregor, Joseph A. Mussulman, and Robert J. Myers. Together they put the expedition in the context of the Louisiana Purchase as well as of tribal relations along the upper Missouri; they delve deeply into the biography of William Clark, they trace the scientific contributions as well as artistic and literary legacies of the Corps of Discovery. They include a gallery of late twentieth-century photos taken along the route as well as explore online resources for teaching about the expedition. In the process, they expand our view of the Lewis and Clark expedition, suggesting new perspectives and leading to new directions in cyberspace and beyond.