Suffering from a case of "road fever" brought on by prolonged
exposure to the journals of Lewis and Clark, Dayton Duncan has
retraced the Corps of Discovery's route from Saint Louis to the
Pacific and back again four different times during the past twenty
years--to say nothing of his countless additional trips to
landmarks along their route. In sweltering summer heat and in
temperatures 45 degrees below zero, he watched yellow moons rise
and heard buffalo thunder; navigated against the Missouri River's
relentless current and stood on its surface, frozen solid
overnight; canoed a dozen times through Montana's magnificent White
Cliffs (Lewis's "seens of visionary inchantment"); and read the
journals by candlelight in the expedition's fort on the Pacific
coast. Along the way, Duncan wrote the essays that make up this
book, essays that guide the reader on a journey of discovery along
the trail of Lewis and Clark.
More a revisiting than a retelling of the story of the Corps of
Discovery, Duncan's book reintroduces us to people and places along
the trail, reflects on events large and small that occurred during
the expedition, and offers constant--and constantly
entertaining--insights into why, two centuries later, the saga of
Lewis and Clark continues to exert such a powerful hold on our
national imagination.
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