I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company: A Novel of Lewis and Clark
Brian Hall
published 2003
432 pages
A novel re-creation of Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants’ lives, the story unfolds through the narration and perspectives of four competing voices. From the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him; to the stream-of-consciousness insights by Indian guide Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl-captive and interpreter for the expedition toting a newborn son, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived.
