This web site is a guide to the best of the many resources for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We list and describe books and other guides for anyone interested in the expedition, of any age and background. Beginners looking for a place to start, students, reenactors, museum personnel, and historians can all find informative and entertaining help here. We don't tell the story, or give you answers to particular questions, but we tell you where you can find what you need. We concentrate largely on books and other offline resources, plus a few of the best websites.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition is one of our great American sagas.

Here met many paths from America's early history, here branched out new paths into America's future. The expedition has many exciting, and sometimes nearly unbelievable, tales, but it is also the history of ordinary people, as human as a square-dance by the campfire. It is the true beginning of the "Old West."

There is something in the story of Lewis and Clark for everyone, a story that has had appeal since the earliest days. There are adventures, discoveries, escapes from danger, frequent and involved meetings with Indians - they lived among Indians for more than 6 months - and the appeal of good competent men doing a good job in demanding circumstances, surrounded by a fantastic natural world. Almost every day, for two years, they saw or did things that were memorable.

The plants, animals, and wilderness are still there, in places, much as Lewis and Clark found them. We have a compass Clark carried and many maps he drew. Most importantly, we still have the journals Lewis and Clark, and three companions, wrote in nearly every day, and carried to the Pacific and back.

There are many excellent books about the Lewis and Clark expedition, both overall histories, and about all kinds of special topics such as discoveries about natural history, meetings with Indians, modern travel guides, historic maps, food they ate, boats, and a few novels. We try to find the best books for every topic and for every age from grade school to adult.

Click here for the list of books.     See also the shorter list of selected books about Lewis & Clark.

Clark, Lewis, and four of the men kept regular journals, full of fascinating events, descriptions, places, and people. The journals are the source for almost all we know about the expedition.

Click here for more about the Journals and where to see them in print and online.

Click here for more about scientific discoveries, observations, and mapping by the expedition.

Click here for more about Lewis and Clark among the native American Indians.

Click here for information about Equipment, boats, firearms, and tools used by the expedition.

Click here for our List of web sites.