A review by ehtyler6
The Journals of Lewis and Clark by

5.0

I read the version edited by Bernard DeVoto. This was an amazing book. You can really picture what the country was like when there was minimal influence of the Europeans. I loved the descriptions of their occasional evening parties. The explorers' team would dance for the Indians and "great hilarity would ensue". Also lots of "troublesome mosquitoes" (with mosquitoes spelled all crazy different ways). Lewis was quite a healer and described all kinds of strange boils, tumors, paralysis, blindness, and other mysterious maladies that he was able to relieve or to cure.