Oregon Experience: Searching for York

Resources

Books

Robert Betts, In Search of York: The Slave who went to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark
University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2000
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, et al, Gary Moulton, Editor, The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
William Clark, James J. Holmberg, Editor, Dear Brother; Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark
Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2002
Washington Irving, John Francis McDermott, Editor, The Western Journals of Washington Irving
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1944
Zenas Leonard, John C. Ewers, Editor, Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1959
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, et al, Nicholas Biddle, Editor, Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Heritage Press, New York, 1962
Zoa L. Swayne, Do Them No Harm; Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce
Legacy House, Orofino ID, 1990
Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Editor, The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Dover Publications, New York, 1965
Frank X. Walker, Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 2004

Articles

York of the Corps of Discovery
Oregon Historical Quarterly
A Notion about Freedom; the relationship of William Clark and York
Gateway Heritage
Big Medison: York's Life During and After the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Speech at the "Confluence of Cultures" conference University of Montana

Web sites

Blackpast.org
http://www.blackpast.org/
Discovering Lewis & Clark: York: Fallout Over Freedom by Ahati N.N. Toure
http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=166
The Undiscovered Explorer: Imagining York
http://www.opb.org/programs/york/credits.html
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute
http://www.tamastslikt.org/
Filson Historical Society
http://www.filsonhistorical.org/
Recognizing York: A community initiative
http://www.lclark.edu/org/yorkproj/theproject.html
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