Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1989
Abstract
The preeminent Lewis and Clark scholars of the latest generation are gone. Thus ends the era that spanned from the 1950s to the present and produced outstanding students of the expedition like Bernard DeVoto, Paul Russell Cutright, and Donald Jackson. Cutright, Lewis and Clark's naturalist-historian, died in March 1988, and Jackson, the expedition's most recent editor, passed away in December 1987. The work reviewed here is vintage Jackson, a mixture of lightness and substance, with an eye for the previously unnoticed and a flair for the appropriate word and arresting phrase.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly WINTER 1989. Copyright 1989 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.