Reviw of Before Lewis and Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785- 1804 and Before Lewis and Clark Volume 2: Documents IUustrating the History of the Missouri, 1785- 1804

Authors

W. Raymond Wood, University of Missouri-ColumbiaFollow

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

It now has been nearly forty years since the publication of Nasatir's landmark study Before Lewis and Clark. In those decades it has grown to be an indispensable aid in the historical scholarship of the Great Plains. The reason? This history of the pre-Lewis and Clark Missouri River provides a comprehensive data base and summary that is unobtainable in any other form. The original two-volume set, unfortunately, has been out of print for many years, and the great cost of the original volumes (usually in three figures) on the used book market is added testimony to their scholarly value. A reprint of this landmark study was long overdue.