Contents
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1 Youth 1774-1792
2 Planter 1792-1794
3 Soldier 1794-1800
4 Thomas Jefferson's America 1801
5 The President's Secretary 1801-1802
6 The Origins of the Expedition 1750-1802
7 Preparing for the Expedition
January-June 1803
8 Washington to Pittsburgh
June-August 1803
9 Down the Ohio
September-November 1803
10 Up the Mississippi to Winter Camp
November 1803-March 1804
11 Ready to Depart
April-May 21, 1804
12 Up the Missouri
May-July 1804
13 Entering Indian Country
August 1804
14 Encounter with the Sioux
September 1804
15 To the Mandans
Fall 1804
16 Winter at Fort Mandan
December 21, 1804-March 21, 1805
17 Report from Fort Mandan
March 22-April 6, 1805
18 From Fort Mandan to Marias River
April 7-June 2, 1805
19 From Marias River to the Great Falls
June 3-June 20, 1805
20 The Great Portage
June 16-July 14, 805
21 Looking for the Shoshones
July 15-August 12, 1805
22 Over the Continental Divide
August 13-August 31, 1805
23 Lewis as Ethnographer: The Shoshones
24 Over the Bitterroots
September 1-October 6, 1805
25 Down the Columbia
October 8-December 7, 1805
26 Fort Clatsop
December 8, 1805-March 23, 1806
27 Lewis as Ethnographer: The
Clatsops and the Chinooks
28 Jefferson and the West
1804-1806
29 Return to the Nez Percé
March 23-June 9, 1806
30 The Lolo Trail
June I O-July 2, 1806
31 The Marias Exploration
July 3-July 28, 1806
32 The Last Leg
July 29-September 22, 1806
33 Reporting to the President
September 23-December 31, 1806
34 Washington
January-March 1807
35 Philadelphia
April-July 1807
36 Virginia
August 1806-March 1807
37 St. Louis
March-December 1808
38 St. Louis
January-August 1809
39 Last Voyage
September 3-October 11, 1809
40 Aftermath
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
MAPS
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Up the Missouri
Headwaters of the Missouri
Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains
Exploring the Mouth of the Columbia
f0 Traveler's Rest
