About this item
Fifer and Soderberg chronicle the journey of the Corps of Discovery in superb detail. This award-winning guide traces the Lewis and Clark Expedition from its very beginnings at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello through the Midwest and the Rockies, to the Pacific Ocean, and back. In addition, it offers detailed information on places to stay, historic sites to see. Excellent color maps. This edition contains no advertising and is stitch bound. Accessible history text combines with tourism information on following their path today, and maps combine both then and now. Extensive index.
About the Author
Barbara Fifer is an adoptive Montanan who lives in Helena. She majored in creative writing/comparative literature at Ohio University, while working college summers on a six-day daily newspaper. She has co-edited a scholarly historical journal; written for and edited book annotations, and produced catalogs for a library book-jobber; edited about a jillion magazine articles and published some, and (for 18 years) edited a few hundred books for Farcountry Press, while also captioning their all-photography books. Since 2003 she has freelanced as an author, editor, book producer, text designer, and indexer.
