1803: The Wintering - Paperback

by Mark B. Hamilton (Author)

1803: The Wintering offers a unique perspective melding a People's History of the Lewis and Clark experience with contemporary environmental sensibilities. These traditional verse poems, circa 1800, explore Captain William Clark's journal entries while at Camp Dubois. This well-founded book of history-based poetry provokes with a mix of romantic notions, fixed forms, and the personal layers beneath those historical documents. The poet becomes a literary sleuth, social anthropologist, and translator of the elusive.