"With a new introduction by the author celebrating the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase"--Cover Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-506) and index
Contents:
Youth -- Planter -- Soldier -- Thomas Jefferson's America -- The President's secretary -- The origins of the expedition -- Preparing for the expedition -- Washington to Pittsburgh -- Down the Ohio -- Up the Mississippi to winter camp -- Ready to depart -- Up the Missouri -- Entering Indian country -- Encounter with the Sioux -- To the Mandans -- Winter at Fort Mandan -- Report from Fort Mandan -- From Fort Mandan to Marias River -- From Marias River to the Great Falls -- The Great Portage -- Looking for the Shoshones -- Over the Continental Divide -- Lewis as ethnographer : the Shoshones -- Over the Bitterroots -- Down the Columbia -- Fort Clatsop -- Lewis as ethnographer : the Clatsops and the Chinooks -- Jefferson and the west -- Return to the Nez PerceĢ -- The Lolo trail -- The Marias exploration -- The last leg -- Reporting to the President -- Washington -- Philadelphia -- Virginia -- St. Louis -- St. Louis -- Last voyage -- Aftermath
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