The Lewis and Clark Expedition:
Discovering the American
West, Encountering Native Americans: An
Exhibition from Rare Books & Special Collections
at Thomas Cooper
Library, USC Columbia
Medford Library, University of South
Carolina at Lancaster
April
10 - May 12, 2008
including
Tuesday, April 22, at 6:30 pm:
An Illustrated
Lecture by Dr.
Patrick Scott
Of special importance in the collection related to Lewis
and Clark is Karl Bodmer's Travels in the Interior of North America (1839).
Bodmer provides detailed images of life among the Mandan
and other peoples, in the very places that Lewis and Clark had wintered. Below
are some of Bodmer's illustrations.



All Illustrations from Karl Bodmer's
Travels (1839),
Rare Books & Special Collections, USC
Columbia