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Index
Cover
About this Book
Title Page
Contents
Chapter 1: Preparing for Adventure
MAP: Up the Missouri
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage for the Expedition
MAP: The United States, 1804
The Northwest Passage
The Louisiana Purchase
Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Turning Frontiersmen into Corpsmen
Shopping for the Journey
And We’re Off!
Chapter 3: Running Up the Missouri
Sailing the Missouri
Keeping Journals
First Meeting with American Indians
Disciplining the Corps
Death of a Sergeant
Entering the Great Plains
Meeting the Yankton Sioux
Problems with the Teton Sioux
The Arikara Indians
Chapter 4: Winter at Fort Mandan
Building a Camp for the Winter
Living with the Mandan
Enter Sacagawea
First Report to the President
Chapter 5: Of Bears and Buffalo
Problems of the Expedition
The Dilemma of the Forks
Searching for the Great Falls
Portaging the Falls
Chapter 6: Horses and High Mountains Ahead
Finding the Shoshone
Reaching the Continental Divide
Meeting the Shoshone
Setting Off Across the Mountains
Chapter 7: Ocean in View
Crossing the Bitterroots
Meeting the Nez Percé
Reaching the Columbia
Chapter 8: Waiting Out Another Winter
Setting Up Camp for the Winter
Leaving Fort Clatsop
Beginning the Journey Home
Chapter 9: The Return Trip
MAP: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806
Conflict with the Blackfeet
Pompey’s Pillar
Lewis Is Accidentally Shot
Return to the Mandan Villages
Home at Last
Chapter 10: Aftermath and the Trail Today
Clark After the Expedition
Lewis’s Triumph and Tragedy
Results of the Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Trail Today
Lessons of Lewis and Clark
Timeline
People of the expedition
Chapter Notes
Further Reading
Index
Note to Our Readers
Copyright
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