Title: The Saga of Lewis and Clark, Into the Uncharted West
Authors Thomas and Jeremy Schmidt, Photography by Wayne Mumford. Hardbound, published November, 1999. Soft cover September. 2001. 85,000 copies sold to date.
The Saga of Lewis & Clark brings the expedition's story to life with excerpts from the journals of expedition members, intriguing historical artifacts of the expeditions's unique equipment, sketches of animal and plant species first recorded during the fabled Voyage of Discovery, archival images of the native cultural arts and crafts, and lavish full-color photography of the still-pristine lands that Lewis & Clark viewed on their expedition to the Pacific.
"What Ken Burns achieved with his television series on the Civil War, the Saga of Lewis and Clark accomplishes in print." (Chicago Tribune)
