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 Reviews Spanish exploration and empire, Robin Inglis and Iris Engstrand,have helped him bring this text to publication. Bodega’s expedition involved diplomacy, exploration, and scientific investigation. His ostensible remit was to proceed to Nootka Sound (on what is now Vancouver Island) to meet Vancouver and implement the first two articles of the Nootka Convention of 1790, which settled the diplomatic crisis between the two countries over commercial, navigation , and property rights on the West Coast of North America. The crisis was precipitated by the arrest of British fur traders by a Spanish naval officer at Nootka Sound in 1789, and Bodega was instructed to restore to the British “buildings and tracts of land”that the Spanish had supposedly confiscated there and nearby (p.15).He was also called on to survey the coast, extending the work of other Spanish explorers and helping Spain to clarify and consolidate its territorial interests in this vast yet patchily mapped region. His report chronicles his fivemonth stay at Nootka Sound, his encounters withvisitingBritishandAmericantraders(from whom he sought information about the 1789 imbroglio), and his diplomatic dealings and correspondence with Vancouver and Nootka’s NativeChief Maquinna.Tovellprovidesasuperlative sixty-page introduction (with historical background) to Bodega’s mission, and the volumehastwenty -sixblackandwhiteillustrations, manyof themreproductionsof raremanuscript maps, paintings, and drawings. Inhisforeword,thecurrentChief Maquinna suggests that the volume “affirm[s] the diplomatic links shared by our nations and communities ”(p.10).Indeed,the pages on Bodega’s meetings with Maquinna and Vancouver are fascinating. They afford detailed comparison with Vancouver’s own record of proceedings and perhaps unsurprisingly reveal significant differences among British,Spanish,and Native perceptions (see the 1984 Hakluyt Society edition of Vancouver’s Voyage). Bodega captures that with the observation that“one should not make any judgement from a single expression [of opinion]”(p.150).His report also attests to the significance of what Greg Dening termed “performances”(the role of language,rhetoric, bodily gesture, attire, and etiquette) in the shaping of contact relations between Europeans , as well as between Europeans and Native people. Bodega’s charisma shines through his report, as does the late-eighteenth-century language of international diplomacy expedited through the exchange of documents,greetings, and courtesies (letters,speeches,gifts,and dinners ) and characterized by a complex interplay of fact and rumor. This is an enthralling addition to Northwest Coast history,and theArthur H. Clark Company has done a superb job. Daniel Clayton University of St. Andrew Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2012. Notes, bibliography, index. 256 pages. $29.95 cloth. Young Lt.Zebulon Pike played a critical role in a great national drama when Thomas Jefferson sought to expand the fledgling American nation into an empire during the early nineteenth century. Matthew Harris and Jay Buckley ’s enlightening collection of essays examines Pike’s expedition to the Southwest and his quest for honor, as well as other expeditions of the time, against the backdrop of European influence and Jefferson’s motives and policy decisions.The book also describes Pike’s sponsor — the conniving Gen. James Wilkinson. Between 1805 and 1813, brave Pike rendered remarkable service to the nation: heading major expeditions to the headwaters of the Mississippi River and the Southwest, commandingWest Florida troops during its separa-  OHQ vol. 114, no. 1 tion from Spain,and heroically leading his men to victory in the Battle of York during the War of 1812. He died shortly after the battle, where he was struck by flying debris. As a southern complement to Lewis and Clark’s epic journey, Pike’s critical expedition to the mountains of Colorado further defined the western boundaries of the new Louisiana Territory. As an explorer, Pike brought back a general understanding of the Arkansas River and its interplay with the Rio Grande. He correctly established the longitudinal position of the mountain spine of the continent when many believed the main chain of the Rocky Mountains was hundreds of miles farther west. There are great errors in his maps, however, particularly his positioning of the headwaters of the great western rivers — the Platte,Arkansas ,Rio Grande,and Colorado — hundreds...

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