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My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark, by George Shannon
A novel by Kate McMullan
With art by Adrienne Yorinks
Joanna Cotler Books / HarperCollins
2004
Oct. 22, 1803
Capt. Lewis noticed that I kept a journal. I told him Ma had sent it to me. That I wrote in it faithfully so that she and the others back home might one day read of my adventure.
Hearing this, Capt. Lewis got all worked up, the way he does. "That's it, Pup!" he said. "Write your story, a private's story, of the Expedition!" He said I must put down exactly how I see things. He said he would never ask to read my journal. That it would exist for posterity, that was what mattered. He went on and on, and I lost him in parts. He finished up saying, "Write a true and honest story, Pup. Tell how you left your home and your family, how you left America and all that you knew to voyage into the Great Unknown!"
Naturally, I said, "Yes, sir!"
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