Category Archives: Lewis & Clark
Tribal Fever: Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officialy eradicated for the Indians of the High Plains. It came a century and a half too late.
The Story behind America’s First War on Terror
The Story behind America’s First War on Terror
A Cautionary Tale from 1814
Landon Jones
Time.com
12 July 2016
(pdf)
Sergeant Floyd and Me: What the author’s appendicitis taught him about the real world of Lewis & Clark. “We Proceeded On,” February 2006
Smithsonian Associates seminar on Lewis and Clark
Join the Smithsonian Associates for Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the American West, the first 
of several programs on great expeditions and their leaders. Landon Jones introduces us to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on April 30, 2015 at 6:45 pm.
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
April 30, 2015
Clark on the Yellowstone: His often neglected reconnaissance of the “Rochejhone” left us a vivid record of a vanished ecosystem
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
A Great Expedition: An explorer’s biographer makes his own wondrous discoveries
by Landon Y. Jones
Princeton Alumni Weekly
June 9, 2004
(pdf version)
Lewis & Clark’s Excellent Adventure
Our original pioneers — and why they still matter
Reader’s Digest
May 2004
(pdf version)
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2004; University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2009)
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cocaptained the most famous expedition in American history. But while Lewis ended his life just three years after the expedition, Clark, as the highest-ranking federal official in the West, spent three decades overseeing its consequences: Indian removal and the destruction of Native America. In a rare Continue reading
William Clark at Portage des Sioux
The Council that Changed the West
Gateway Heritage The Quarterly Magazine of the Missouri Historical Society (pdf)
by Landon Jones
Fall 2003 – Winter 2004
Iron Will
While William Clark is best known for the expedition he made with Meriwether Lewis, his later life was as historic and more consequential.
Smithsonian Magazine
by Landon Jones
August 2002
Leading Men
Lewis & Clark: How an amazing adventure 200 years ago continues to shape how America sees itself
Time Magazine
by Landon Jones
July 8, 2002
(pdf version)
The Essential Lewis and Clark
(Ecco/Harper Colllins, 2000)
The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration. This compact volume of their journals, compiled by American Book Award nominee Landon Y. Jones, includes all of the most riveting tales of their adventure, in their own words. Continue reading