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Waiting for Lewis and Clark : the bicentennial and the changing West

Title
Waiting for Lewis and Clark : the bicentennial and the changing West / David Sarasohn.
Author
Sarasohn, David.
Publication
Portland : Oregon Historical Society Press, [2005], ©2005.

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181 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Across thousands of miles, Indian tribes, environmental activists, tourism promoters, and keelboat re-enactors saw the Lewis and Clark bicentennial as a rare opportunity. It arrived at a time of seismic change in the region - a time when its economy, politics, and even population were shifting sharply. For three years, journalist and historian David Sarasohn followed the planning of the bicentennial, recording how the past was being invoked to commemorate the expedition and talking to those whose ideas were shaping national and regional events." "Sarasohn traces not only strategies and clashes of values but also a rich cast of individuals, from tribal figures with buckskins and MBAs to businessmen betting on the bicentennial and historical impersonators with modern agendas. Like the expedition itself, Waiting for Lewis and Clark ranges from Monticello and Washington, D.C., down the Missouri, and over the Rockies to the Pacific, depicting three Wests - the region of the past and the present and the dreams of westerners."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the trail that never ends -- Profile/Gerard Baker -- Ch. 1. Setting out -- Profile/Robert Archibald -- Ch. 2. The tribal trail -- Profile/Roberta "Bobbie" Conner -- Ch. 3. Returning to the land -- Profile/Mary Kiesau -- Ch. 4. The river runs through it -- Profile/Maya Lin -- Ch. 5. The new West, with postcards -- Profile/James Ronda -- Ch. 6. Legacy and souvenirs.
ISBN
087595295X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005019140
OCLC
  • 60835432
  • ocm60835432
  • SCSB-5224232
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries