Telling Stories About Lewis and Clark: Does History Still Matter?

It is obvious that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are famous men. The story of their expedition and the people who traveled with them, including Clark\u27s enslaved African-American York and the Indian woman called Sacajawea, is an iconic narrative of Americana. The fifty-four page annotated list of books, pamphlets, and articles published between 1906 and 2001 in The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition attests to a fascination that took hold during the centennial of their great trek and threatens to swamp us all during its bicentennial