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Thomas P. Slaughter is the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the award-winning author of three previous books-most recently, The Natures of John and William Bartram-and is the editor of three others, including the Library of America edition of William Bartram- Travels and Other Writings. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and two children.
Scintillating. . . . Delves deep and asks questions that will forever change [our] reading of these men. --Newsday Adds new and fascinating dimensions to our appreciation of the Corps of Discovery and their brave trek through the American West. --The Times-Picayune A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in considering the thorniest questions within it. --The Washington Post Slaughter successfully achieves his goal of delving beneath the surface of the journals...Raise[s] interesting questions about Lewis and Clark, and shows that we shouldn't take everything we read in the journals as truth. --The Seattle Times Fascinating... Through close attention to the explorers' own accounts of their journey, Slaughter probes the threats that confronted Lewis and Clark at every turn. - The Times-Picayune -Scintillating. . . . Delves deep and asks questions that will forever change [our] reading of these men.- --Newsday -Adds new and fascinating dimensions to our appreciation of the Corps of Discovery and their brave trek through the American West.- --The Times-Picayune -A rueful reading of the historical record that delights in considering the thorniest questions within it.- --The Washington Post -Slaughter successfully achieves his goal of delving beneath the surface of the journals...Raise[s] interesting questions about Lewis and Clark, and shows that we shouldn't take everything we read in the journals as truth.- --The Seattle Times -Fascinating... Through close attention to the explorers' own accounts of their journey, Slaughter probes the threats that confronted Lewis and Clark at every turn.- - The Times-Picayune
