Book Review of Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Thomas P. Lowry

Authors

Ronald V. Loge, Southwestern Montana Clinic, Dillon, Montana, and University of Washington School of Medicine

Date of this Version

Fall 2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS RESEARCH 16:2 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Although Lewis and Clark literature has proliferated in the last decade, few works have added scholarly discourse to this field of study. The highly focused Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, however, will likely stand out on the Lewis and Clark bookshelf as an important contribution.