Contributors / Carolyn Gilman

Carolyn Gilman

Carolyn Gilman is the author of Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide (2003) and The Blended Heart: The American Revolution on the Frontier (forthcoming) on which her article George Rogers Clark is based. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian and has contributed numerous scholarly articles.

 

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    George Rogers Clark

    Jefferson's First Emissary to the West

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    Jefferson put in George Clark’s hands the creation of an entire military infrastructure to defend the West. Clark was asked to whip together all the administrative structure of an army: quartermasters, commissaries, artificers, officers, and even washerwomen to keep the men uniformed, armed, disciplined, and fed.

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  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
  • The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.

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Unless otherwise noted, journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001).