After Lewis and Clark

Finding Information on Natural Resources since the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

Some really good books:

Barclay, Donald A. Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805. Salt Lake City, UT.: University of Utah Press, 1994. Reserve F592 I68 1994

Botkin, Daniel B. Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2004. Reserve QH 104.5 W4 B67 2004

Duncan, Dayton. OutWest: an American Journey. N.Y.: Viking Press, 1987.
Reserve F 592 D86 1987

Furtwangle, Albert. Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Reserve F592.7 F86 1993

Magoc, Chris J. Environmental Issues in American History: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents. Westport, CO.: Greenwood Press, 2006. Reserve GE 150 M338 2006.

Schneiders, Robert. Unruly river: two centuries of change along the Missouri. Lawrence, KS.: University of Kansas Press, 1999 Reserve GE 155 M85 S36 1999

Woodger, Elin and Brandon Toropov, Encyclopedia of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. N.Y.: Facts on File, 2004. Reference F 592.7 W68 2004

Some more subjects to use in the Library Catalog to find more good books:

Air Pollution United States History
American Bison
Fur Bearing Animals
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Missouri River
Prairie Ecology
Prairies
Soils
Water Supply
West (U.S.) Description and Travel
West (U.S.) History Sources

Google Books - Full text of books that are no longer in copyright.

Other early explorers who wrote first hand accounts of the American West:

Mackenzie, Alexander
Champlain, Samuel de
Marquette, Jacques
Hennepin, Louis
Coronado, Francisco Valesquez de
Long, Stephen Harriman
Smith, Jedediah Strong
Parkman, Francis
Carson, Kit
Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
Smet, Pierre Jean de
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery

Tips on How to Search the Library Catalog.

A good place to look for full-text magazine and journal articles: JSTOR

Class Web Sites

General web sites

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/lewisandclark/

http://www.lewis-clark.org

http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/homepage/homepage.htm

http://www.ucdp.uc.edu/lewisandclark/

http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu

http://lewisandclark.org/?p=lib_landcexp&n=landcexp

http://www.lewisclark.net/index.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAamericanwest.htm

http://www.usgs.gov/features/lewisandclark.html

http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/

http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/

State specific web sites

http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/index.shtml (Missouri)

http://www.lewisandclark.mo.gov/ (Missouri)

http://lewisandclarkinkansas.com/ (Kansas)

http://www.sdhistory.org/exhibit1/mus_lcx.htm (South Dakota)

http://travelsd.com/onlyinsd/lc (South Dakota)

http://www.nd.gov/hist/lewisclark/indexframeset.html (North Dakota)

https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/lewis&clark/lewis&clark1.htm (North Dakota)

http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/ (Montana)

A good website The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the USGS ( http://www.usgs.gov/features/lewisandclark.html )

Another good website on water supply:

National Water Information System: Web Interface USGS (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/qw )

Microform Collections - Draper Manuscripts Works and papers collected by Lyman Draper on the history of the trans-Allegheny West, an area that includes portions of the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, the entire Ohio Valley and the Mississippi Valley. Most materials cover the time period from the 1740's through the 1810's. Microfilm F 586 D7 1980