Thanks to Earl Weidner, Tony Turnbow, and Jerry Gandolfo for sharing their research with me. Thanks for editing are due to Jack Young and Rick Blond. Rick shared his photos of the Lewis and Clark Trail with me. Rick took these photos while using the Lewis and Clark Road Trips book on his travels, which makes them very special.
Thanks to librarians and archivists: Dennis Northcott, Missouri History Museum; Jennifer Clark, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; Monica Smith, Cairo Public Library; Anne Shepherd, Cincinnati Museum Center; Penny White, University of Virginia Special Collections; Mark Walters, Interlibrary Loan Director, University of Nebraska at Omaha; and Jack Robertson, Jefferson Library at Monticello. I have been helped by staff at: the Tennessee State Library and Archives; Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society; Boutetourt County Historical Society; Natchez Historical Society; Filson Historical Society; Chicago Historical Society; Newberry Library of Chicago; Archives of the University Missouri-Columbia; Special Collections of the University of Mississippi; the National Archives in Washington, Chicago and Kansas City; Beinecke Library of Yale University; Massachusetts Historical Society;University of Southern Illinois Library; and the University of Texas at Austin Archives. Librarians and archivists are a special group of people and I thank them all for their helpfulness.
The Lewis and Clark Study Group at the Western Historic Trails Center in Council Bluffs has been my support group for fifteen years. My husband Henry has always encouraged and facilitated my work. I am fortunate to have his support and companionship.
The interpretation of events is entirely my own.
Virginia, the “Old Dominion,” was the oldest and largest of the original thirteen colonies. West Virginia was part of Virginia and Kentucky was a county.