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oseph A. Mussulman is the producer and principal writer of Discovering Lewis & Clark®. As a Danforth Scholar, he earned a doctorate in humanities from Syracuse University in 1967. 
His bachelor's and master's degrees in music history and literature were granted by Northwestern University in 1950 and 1951.
He has written and produced a number of major interpretive programs, including Forty Miles from Freedom, a multimedia presentation about the Nez Perces' battle at the Bear Paw Mountains, for the Blaine County Museum (MT). His interactive self-guided audio-CD tour of Yellowstone National Park, a five-hour program produced for Tour Technologies, Inc., received first prize for media productions in 1994 from the National Association for Interpretation. His Two Days to Destiny, an audio interpretive tour of the Little Bighorn Battlefield, won first place from the NAI in 1995.
He is the author of five articles on Lewis and Clark that have appeared in We Proceeded On, the official journal of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc.: "My Boy Pomp': About That Name," Vol. 21, No. 2 (May,1995); "Soundscapes: The Sonic Dimensions of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," Vol. 21, No. 4 (November, 1995); "Men inHigh Spirits: Humor on the Lewis and Clark Trail," Vol.22, No. 2 (May, 1996); "'In Greatest Harmoney': 'Meddicine Songs' on the Lewis and Clark Trail," Vol. 23, No. 4 (November1997); and "Pomp's bier was a bar," Vol. 27, No. 1 (February 2001).
Dr. Mussulman has designed and produced maps for various books, brochures and study guides about Lewis and Clark, including 58 full-color maps illustrating the expedition's entire route for the travelers' guide, Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark, by Barbara Fifer and Vicky Soderberg (2nd ed., Helena: Montana Magazine, 2001). Those maps also appear in the same publisher's annual Lewis and Clark Travel Planner and Guide. In 1998 he created a poster illustrating the trail from Washington, D.C. to the Pacific, for Farcountry Press.
His other publications include a biography, Dear People ... Robert Shaw (Indiana University Press,1979; reprint, Chapel Hill, NC: Hinshaw Music, 1996), and Music in the Cultured Generation (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974).
From 1987 through 1998 he was the interpretive writer and designer of Montana Afloat, a series of sixteen maps of Montana's major floatable rivers.
Dr. Mussulman is a 1999 recipient of a Montana Governor's Arts Award. More recently, he received an award of meritorious achievement from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation "for outstanding contributions in bring to this nation a greater awareness and appreciation of the Lewis and Clark expedition." In 2005 he received the Montana Governor's Humanities Award.
Voice and fax: (406) 829-6598. Email: jmuss@lewis-clark.org.