Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis andClark Trail

Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs serves on the board of directors for the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Foundation, the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, and the American Prairie Foundation. She is the coauthor of The Lewis and Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Experiences of a Writer on the Lewis and Clark Trail 2. Missouri River 3. Paddling into Bodmer 4. In Search of Perfect Harmony: Keeping an Expedition Happy Now and Then 5. Selected and Implanted by Nature: Leadership and Manly Firmness on the Lewis and Clark Trail 6. Sufficiently Ample: What If? 7. Opening Our Ears: Researching The Lewis and Clark Companion 8. I Grew Heartily Tired of the National Hug: Meriwether Lewis under the Microscope 9. Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off 10. Beyond Measuring Shadows: What Would Thomas Jefferson Do? 11. New Beginnings: Why We Still Need Lewis and Clark Postscript: Advice to the MSU-Billings Graduating Class of 2006 Notes Bibliography

"For Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, the Lewis and Clark expedition is not just a historical story; it's personal, too, intertwined with her father's and family's lives. In this book, she brings her own experiences on the trail--and especially her own passions and insights--to bear on the Corps of Discovery. Reading it is like having a lively conversation across an open campfire." Dayton Duncan, author of Out West: A Journey through Lewis and Clark's America "Lively, engaging, and well informed, here is the guide through the journals of Lewis and Clark and along the trail with the Corps of Discovery that will keep you laughing, arguing, and pondering. Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs provides delightful insights for her readers on this journey." Clyde A. Milner II, editor of A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West "Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs broadens and deepens our understanding of events and personalities more than two centuries old. Even more importantly, she makes fresh connections to the moral lessons we urgently need to draw from them today." Landon Jones, author of William Clark and the Shaping of the West