James Williams, dean of libraries at the University of Colorado at Boulder, reads from David Lavender's The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent. These readings, from the Words to Stir the Soul series hosted by the Center of the American West, are an occasional feature of Colorado Matters.
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