Lewis and Clark - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lewis and Clark, by William R. Lighton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Author: William R. Lighton Release Date: October 4, 2008 [EBook #26775] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LEWIS AND CLARK *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) William Clark and Meriwether Lewis L E W I S A N D C L A R K 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 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.