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• W4206384562 abstract "meanings. The explorers created a collection from the individual objects they received, but the objects themselveswere selected by Indian leaders who used the giftgiving to comment upon and furthertheirown objectives with the exploring party (p.n). The Lewis and Clark Expedition was suc cessful in large measure because the two leaders understood that their trek was asmuch about nurturing social and political relations as it was about discovering new lands and surmounting physical and topographical challenges in the process. Theirs was a trip through human as well as physical geography.The fabulous objects that returnedwith them are, inMcLaughlin s enlightened view, proof thatNative peoples were not just discoverable but were themselves vital participants as discoverers, diplomats, and enablerswho shared equally as voyagers in that epic historical adventure. I Should Be ExtremelyHappy inYour Company: A Novel ofLewis and Clark by Brian Hall Viking, New York, 2003. 431 pages. $25.95 cloth, $14.00 paper. The True Account: A Novel of theLewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions byHoward FrankMosher Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003.352 pages. $24.00 cloth, $13.00 paper. Reviewed byMichael McGregor Portland State University,Portland, Oregon Many historians consider the term historical fiction an oxymoron. If a piece ofwriting ishistorically accurate, theysay, there can be nothing fictional about it.And if something isfiction,you should not trytopass itoff as somehow more authentic bymisusing theword historical. Despite their skepticism, however, more and more fiction writers have been rummaging through thehistorical files in recentyears, looking for what novelist Thomas Mallon calls a place to get away. They are searching for someplace where the imagination has room to expand, a place and time farfrom a contemporary world thatwe know toomuch about and inwhich we can access anywhere or anyone through e-mail, CNN, or the Internet. Given therelativelyvirginnature of the land Lewis and Clark traversed two hundred years ago and what was sure to be a nationwide com memoration of their journey's bicentennial, it was inevitable that some novelistwould attempt a fictional re-creation of the pair's grand adven ture.Among thosewho have are Brian Hall and Howard FrankMosher. Their approaches are as differentas can be, but together they illustrate theopportunities and dangers inherentinblend inghistorywith fiction. Of the two,Hall ismore concerned about historians looking over his shoulder.His book is amostly faithfulrendering of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and itsaftermath,fromLewis's first meetings with Thomas Jefferson throughthe deaths of the expedition's best-known figures (Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, Charbonneau, and York). It includes a lengthyauthor's notewith an impressivelistofbooks he has consulted andwhat comes close to being an apology forwhatever libertieshe has takenwith thehistorical record. 524 OHQ vol. 105, no. 3 Hall's text is so faithfultowhat we already know (he used Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage as a guide) and so stuffedwith his torically accurate information ? painstaking descriptions ofNative American rituals, meticu lous listsof supplies, and detailed catalogues of day-to-day movements ? that one begins to wonder what he has cribbed fromhis historical sources and what he has made up. One wonders, too, why he did not just write a historical account of the journey,using his talent fordescription and his eye fordetail to liven thingsup. The tediousness of his approach aside, Hall rewards intrepid readerswith occasional gems. Halfway through the book, he takes us inside Lewis's mind on the day he discovered the Missouri River's Great Fallswhile exploring alone.The passage blends exciteddiscoverywith vanity, self-doubt, and a heightened awareness of expectations to give us a Lewis more human and complex than in strictlyfactual accounts. Unfortunately, thepassage lasts just fourpages beforeHall's obsession with prosaic details takes over again. The most intriguing,and ultimately disap pointing, choiceHall makes isto tellsome ofhis story in thevoices of Sacagawea and Charbon neau. In the Sacagawea passages he does fairly well with thehigh-wire act of trying to give a Native American view of people and events. Cumbersome phrases like strange-eaters and shed-fur trees make the reading slow at first but also thought-provoking. Eventually, how ever, these passages become as tedious as others in the book. Sacagawea's thinking progresses little, making her seem overly simple, and her earthiness is overdone, suggesting an odd..." @default.
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