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Title: Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Author: William R. Lighton

Release Date: October 4, 2008 [EBook #26775]

Language: English

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Meriwether Lewis]

LEWIS AND CLARK

MERIWETHER LEWIS

AND

WILLIAM CLARK

BY

WILLIAM R. LIGHTON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
PORTLAND, OREGON
THE J. K. GILL COMPANY

1905

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY WILLIAM R. LIGHTON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Transcriber's Note: The symbol "^" in "Miss^ie" is used to indicate
that the letters following it are printed in superscript.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. CHARACTERISTICS 1

II. THE EXPEDITION 15

III. TERMS OF THE COMMISSION 25

IV. THE START 34

V. WITH THE SIOUX 51

VI. TO THE FALLS OF THE MISSOURI 69

VII. OVER THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE 82

VIII. THE LAST STAGE OF THE WESTWARD JOURNEY 93

IX. WINTER ON THE COAST 107

X. HOMEWARD: IN THE MOUNTAINS 117

XI. RECROSSING THE DIVIDE 134

XII. HOME 142

XIII. AFTER LIFE 149

LEWIS AND CLARK

CHAPTER I

CHARACTERISTICS

In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition
which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth o