I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian Hall
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1803-1840
- Setting: Washington, D.C.; Virginia; Kentucky; Missouri; Tennessee; the Louisiana Territory
- Principal Characters: Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Jefferson, Sacajawea, Toussaint Charbonneau, Pomp (Jean Baptiste Charbonneau), York, Auguste Chouteau, Lucy Marks, Washington Irving
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Virginia, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Missouri, Heroes or heroism, Kentucky, Louisiana, Northwest Passage, Exploration or explorers, Louisiana Purchase, Maps, Expeditions
- Locales: Virginia, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana Territory
One of the great American epics of exploration and discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition has been recounted many times by historians, biographers, and novelists, most recently in Stephen E. Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage (1996). The story receives a sensitive and poetic treatment in I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company. In his novel, Brian Hall gives readers the backgrounds of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacajawea before the expedition begins, and he carries their stories well beyond the journey’s end.
When appointed to command the expedition,...
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