Suggested Books for DAR Essay Contest Research
The Incredible Journey of Lewis and Clark by Rhoda Blumberg

The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Sanna Porte Kiesling

A Picture Book of Sacagawea by David A. Adler

Sacagawea by Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson

Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark by Dororthy Hinshaw
Patent

The Back of Beyond: A Story about Lewis and Clark by Andy
Russell Bowen

A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark by David A. Adler

Lewis and Clark Explorers of the American West by Steven Kroll

Lewis and Clark for Kids by Janis Herbert

How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark by
Rosalyn Schanzer

Sacagawea by Lise Erdrich

York's Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African American's
Part in the Great Expedition
by Rhoda Blumberg

The Lewis and Clark Trail Then and Now by Dorothy Hinshaw
Patent

The Great Expedition of Lewis and Clark by Private Reubin FIeld,
Member of the Corps of Discovery
as recorded by Judith Edwards

The Captain's Dog: My Journey with Lewis and Clark by Roland
Smith
(fiction from the viewpoint of Seaman)

Sacagawea: The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark
Expedition
by Joseph Bruchac

New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of DIscovery by Allan
Wolf
(for older students or very good readers)

Plants on the Trail of Lewis and Clark by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Dog of Discovery: A Newfoundland's Adventures with Lewis and
Clark
by Laurence Pringle

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark, by George Shannon
by Kate McMullan (fictional journal of the youngest member of the
expedition)

This Vast Land: A Young Man's Journal of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition by Stephen Ambrose
(a fictional journal from the viewpoint
of George Shannon -- youngest member of the expedition)

Lewis and Clark's Bittersweet Crossing by Carol Lynn MacGregor
(the story of the crossing of the Bitterroot Mountains)

As Far as the Eye Can Reach: Lewis and Clark's Westward Quest
by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel