Acknowledgments
A work of this character,
involving so wide a range of territory,
interests, and studies, must in considerable measure be
co-operative
in its character. The Editor's requests
for advice and assistance have on
every hand met
with most cordial responses, for which a mere enumeration
of names seems only cold
acknowledgment; it is hoped
that each of his correspondents and colleagues
will between the
lines read a heartier appreciation than to others may be
apparent.
The Bibliographical Data
contributed to the present
work by Mr. Victor Hugo Paltsits, of the New
York Public
Library, is a work of great value; like the Original Journals
themselves, this chapter on the literature of the subject will
doubtless prove definitive. The officers of the American
Philosophical Society, particularly the secretary, Dr. I. Minis
Hays, have been kindness itself. Valuable notes on the scientific
results of the expedition have been
freely contributed
by Dr. William Trelease, Director of the Missouri
Botanical
Garden at St. Louis; Messrs. Stewardson Brown and Witmer
Stone, assistants to the curators of the Academy of Natural
Sciences
at Philadelphia; Mr. James Newton Baskett, of
Mexico, Missouri; Professor Edwin H. Barbour, of the
University
of Nebraska; Professor E. E.
Blackman, archæologist
for the Nebraska Historical Society;
Professor Charles V.
Piper, botanist and entomologist of the Washington
(State)
Agricultural and Experiment Station at Pullman; and Professor
Franklin H. King, of the United States
Department of
Agriculture. Detailed information concerning the over-mountain
trail of the expedition has been
obtained from Mr. Olin
D. Wheeler, of the General Passenger and Ticket
Department
of the Northern Pacific Railway, whose two-volume work,
The Trail of Lewis and Clark, will prove of much
practical value
to American historians; and Professor F. G. Young, of the
University of Oregon. Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, of Oregon
City, Oregon,
has contributed most liberally from the surprisingly
rich store of historical materials
which, with remarkable
enterprise and perseverance, she accumulated during
her preparation
for the writing of
The Conquest; her persistent helpfulness
has laid the Editor under unusual
obligations. Courtesies
of various kinds have also been received from the
following
persons—to mention but a few of the many who, throughout
the past two years, have aided the publication: Hon. Pierre
Chouteau, and Hon. Walter B. Douglas, of St. Louis, members
of the Missouri Historical Society, and the
society's
librarian, Miss Mary Louise Dalton; Hon. Craig Biddle, of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Laura E. Howey, secretary and librarian
of the
Historical and Miscellaneous Department of the Montana
State Library; Mrs. S. Lou Monroe-Farmer, of
Portland,
Oregon; Mr. Peter Koch, of Bozeman, Montana; Mr. Charles
H. Conover, of Chicago; Mr. J. W. Cheney, librarian of the
War
Department, Mr. Robert Chapman, of the United States
Coast and Geodetic
Survey, Mr. C. H. Lincoln, of the Manuscripts
Division of the Library of Congress, and Major William
Hancock
Clark, of Washington, D. C.; Mr. C. H. Anderson,
of Ivy Depot, Virginia;
Hon. Nathaniel P. Langford, of St.
Paul; and Mr. William Harvey Miner, of
Cleveland.
Emma Helen Blair, A.M., editorial assistant upon The
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents and now one
of the
editors of The Philippine Islands,
1493–1898, assisted materially
upon a majority of the annotations; further help in
this direction,
as well as in the difficult
work of comparing transcriptions
with the original manuscripts, has been
rendered by Louise
Phelps Kellogg, Ph.D., of the Manuscripts Division of
the
Wisconsin Historical Library. Finally, the Editor takes especial
pleasure in acknowledging the patient and
kindly cooperation
of the Publishers, who
have exhibited the deepest
interest in every detail of the work, which
owes much to their
many suggestions and their generous determination to
leave
nothing undone that might add to its scholarly value and
artistic embellishment.
R. G. T.
Madison, Wisconsin
May 14, 1904
