ANTIQUE 1902 LEWIS & CLARK BOOK SACAJAWEA THE CONQUEST

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ITEM: Antique Lewis and Clark hardback book entitled " The Conquest " by Eva Emery Dye plus three additional items that will be described below. CONDITION: Book is in very good condition. Light wear on spine ends and corners. Light soiling on back cover. The word "Forever" is written in small letters on first blank end page. Name is written on inside back cover. T is a small stain on inside back cover. Pages are lightly yellowed with age. Otherwise no marks, stains or writing. All pages present, clean and firmly attached. DESCRIPTION: The first edition was published in 1902 by A. C. McClurg and Company. This copy was published in 1911 by A. C. McClurg and Company. Contains 443 pages and is about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Contains a frontis illustration of a painting made especially for this book. In the acknowledgment at the beginning of the book the author acknowledges "obligation to the Lewis and Clark families, especially to William Hancock Clark of Washington, D.C., and John O'Fallon Clark of St. Louis, grandsons of Governor Clark, and to C. Harper Anderson of Ivy Depot, Virginia, the nephew and heir of Meriwether Lewis, for letters, documents, and family traditions; to Mrs. Meriwether Lewis Clark of Louisville and Mrs. Jefferson K. Clark of New York, widows of Governor Clark's sons, and to more than twenty nieces and nephews; to Reuben Gold Thwaites of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, for access to the valuable Draper Collection of Clark, Boone, and Tecumseh manuscripts, and for use of the original journals of Lewis and Clark which Mr. Thwaites is now editing; to George W. Martin of the Kansas Historical Society at Topeka, for access to the Clark letter-books covering William Clark's correspondence for a period of thirty years; to Colonel Reuben T. Durrett of Louisville, for access to his valuable private library, to Mr. Horace Kephart of the Mercantile Library, and Mr. Pierre Chouteau, St. Louis; to the Historical Societies of Missouri, at St. Louis and Columbia; to Mrs. Laura Howey, for Montana manuscripts at Helena; to Miss Kate C. McBeth, the greatest living authority on Nez Perce tradition; to the descendants of Dr. Saugrain, and to the families and friends of Sergeants Pryor, Gass, Floyd, Ordway, and privates Bratton, Shannon, Drouillard, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; also to the Librarian of Congress for copies of Government Documents." Included with the book is a separate copy of a newspaper article from 1947 concerning the death of the book's author and her photograph (see scans). Also included is a copy (not the original) of a very rare 16 page brochure concerning the Sacajawea Statue Association of which Eva Emery Dye was president. According to the brochure this association was formed on April 18, 1900 for the following purpose: "The business and object of this Association shall be to commemorate the services of Sacajawea to Lewis and Clark on their expedition from Fort Mandan, on the Missouri River, to Oregon and return. For this purpose to acquire and hold necessary real estate and other property to erect a statue, and to exercise such powers as are given by statute to associations other than those for pecuniary profit." The brochure also contains the following tribute from "Dr. James K. Hosmer, of Minneapolis, the noted editor of the Lewis and Clark journals: Now that the centenary of the first crossing of our continent is close at hand, Lewis and Clark the heroes, who accomplished it, come into our minds, and a revival is taking place of interest in their story. Especially will the world turn to that noble and picturesque book, 'The Conquest' by Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, in which with admirable power that story is made vivid. One may see sometimes at a May festival, a rough cord transformed into a thing of beauty, by being intertwined with ivy and smilax and set off with daisies and roses. In like fashion the plain tread of history furnished by the stout explorers, unwinding day by day as they marched, take... read more

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