Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Gary Moulton Reviews Bicentennial

Professor Gary Moulton, the Editor of the Lewis and Clark Journals, gave a talk at the monthly dinner meeting of the Mouth of the Platte chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation on November 21, 2006. The chapter meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Dodge Riverside Grill overlooking the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Visitors are welcome.  Dr. Moulton reviewed the bicentennial from a historian’s perspective: he focused on the lasting and living legacy of the expedition’s journals, the botanical specimens collected by Meriwether Lewis, and the maps made by William Clark. Dr. Moulton himself spent over 20 years editing the journals.  He was asked "What’s next?"  He has been serving as a consultant to Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, which is in the process of publishing the first volume of Prince Maximilian’s Journals of his travels up the Missouri River in 1832-34. The volumes will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. The journals are part of Joslyn’s world famous Western Art Collection, which features the paintings of Karl Bodmer, who accompanied Prince Maximilian on his travels. They traveled with copies of William Clark’s maps, which are also part of the Western Art Collection. Dr. Moulton revealed that he is working on one more Lewis and Clark project: he is writing a day by day narrative of the expedition’s travels.  That will be a most welcome addition to my Top 50 Lewis and Clark Books (available through my Amazon Affiliate Bookstore) when it comes out!  We can anticipate its publication next year.

Shown here are Bob Pawloski, President of MOP, and Fay and Gary Moulton. Bob is in change of three Lewis and Clark websites, the National Bicentennial website, theNebraska Bicentennial website, and the Mouth of the Platte website.  He is also editing videos of programs given in the Tent of Many Voices, which toured the country under the auspices of the National Park Service’s Corps of Discovery II during the Bicentennial years, 2003-2006.  I will be blogging about these videos, of which over 500 short clips (6-8 minutes) are already available for viewing at www.lewisclarkandbeyond.com.

Posted by Kira Gale on 11/22/2006 at 01:04 PM

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