Lewis and Clark : across the divide /

By:

Gilman, Carolyn, 1954-

Contributor(s):

Missouri Historical Society

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : St. Louis : Smithsonian Books ; Missouri Historical Society, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 424 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1588340996
1588340953

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Contents:

Introduction: The Objects of Our Journey / James P. Ronda -- Imagining America -- Learning Diplomacy -- A World of Women -- Depictions of the Land -- Animal Encounters -- Crossing the Divide -- Trade and Property -- Curing and Plants -- Discovering Each Other -- Filling up the Canvas -- Conclusion: Contemporary Voices / Carolyn Gilman -- The Journey of Our Objects / Carolyn Gilman.

Summary: Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark, two men shaped by Jefferson's Enlightenment ideas, encountered an Indian world they only partly understood. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide expands and transforms their familiar story by fully exploring--for the first time--the cultural landscapes the expedition traversed. Carolyn Gilman draws from 50 different lending institutions to reassemble for the first and likely the last time the authentic artifacts of Lewis and Clark's journey across then-Indian lands. The result is a breathtaking new view of both the equipment the expedition used and the color, complexity, and diversity of the cultures they encountered. Because of the fragility of artifacts, the book documents more fully than the exhibition itself the equipment Lewis and Clark carried and the rich diversity of what was collected in this historic encounter of two worlds.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Reference	F592.7 .G55 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001154

"This volume is a companion to Lewis and Clark : The National Bicentennial Exhibition, organized and circulated by the Missouri Historical Society ... "--Foreword.

"Exhibition Dates: Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, January-August, 2004; Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, November 2004-March 2005; Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, May-September 2005; Oregon History Center, Portland, November 2005-March 2006; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, May-September 2006"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-398) and index.

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