Re: [Paddlewise] A wintertime reading recommendation

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:40:32
At 07:49 PM 12/4/00 -0600, Robert J. Matter wrote:
>My wintertime pick:
>
>Undaunted Courage : Meriwether
>Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the
>Opening of the American West
>by Stephen E. Ambrose

I'm old fashioned, I guess: The Course of Empire, and Across the Wide
Missouri by Bernard DeVoto. DeVoto may be a little passe, as the books are
now over 50 years old, but neither have lost their punch. DeVoto's edit of
the L&C journals is also very good.

-- Wes


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