A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804-1806 (inscribed to N. Scott Momaday)
Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the dedication page by the editor: "For Scott Momaday, with gratitude and unlimited repsect, Clay Jenkinson, October 1, 2004." From the library of N. Scott Momaday, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House of the Rising Dawn in 1969 and a key figure of the literary Native American Renaissance. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2007. Published for the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, this volume offers the journal entries of not only Lewis and Clark but also expedition members Patrick Gass, Joseph Whitehouse, and John Ordway during their time in what's now North Dakota. With almost 100 black-and-white and color images included. Jenkinson is a Rhodes Scholar and a scholar-in-residence at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR; he is an expert on Thomas Jefferson and his era. A short quarto in brown cloth, 594 pages with index. A fine copy in a near fine jacket with rubbing, a touch of creasing to spine ends. Item #2075
ISBN: 1891419269
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