By Roberta McKern
For The New Era
Last month, we began looking into the Journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who compiled them in 1804 to 1806 under the aegis of President Thomas Jefferson.
Our very interesting version here at East Linn Museum is a brief edition, edited and much boiled down by Bernard DeVoto 150 years after the Journals recorded the expedition of discovery’s travel through the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific…