Meriwether Lewis and William Clark filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West. This set of the celebrated Nebraska edition features the seven core volumes - those written by Lewis and Clark - and incorporates a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of their 1804-1806 expedition.
Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska and recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of these journals.