Plate
from Frederick Pursh's
Flora Americae 1814
Indian Gathering Basket
from Wasco-Wishram Area circa 1800 |
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In 1998 Lewis and Clark
College acquired the Roger D. Wendlick Collection on Lewis and Clark. This
is the finest collection ever assembled by a single person in the history
of collecting books on the Expedition. Over an eighteen-year period Wendlick
devoted his life to assembling this premier collection. Not content with
collecting nearly all titles published on the Corps of Discovery, Wendlick
procured maps consulted and carried by the Expedition, books consulted and
carried by the explorers, and relevant books on earlier and later westward
explorations. All copies are either first editions, or the same edition
copies that Lewis and Clark carried or studied.
Highlights of this collection include:
- All known publications
of the journals in any language, including German, French, English and
Dutch
- David McKeehan’s
family copy of Patrick Gass 1807 edition of hisjournal (McKeehan was
the publisher and editor of the Gass journal, and last person known
to have the manuscript of the Gass journal.)
- William Dunbar’s
family copy of Patrick Gass 1807 edition of the journal (William Dunbar
was an explorer and contemporary of Lewis & Clark.)
- Same edition copies
of books carried by the Expedition, including: Benjamin Barton’s
Elements of Botany, 1803; Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan, 1784; Views
of Louisiana by Le Page Du Pratz, 1763; Journal of Andrew Ellicott by
Andrew Ellicott, 180
The Wendlick Collection
also includes maps consulted or carried by the Expedition. Among them are
maps by: Cook, MacKenzie, Vancouver, Arrowsmith, and Sennex.
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