First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6Brooks, Noah
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First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
Brooks, Noah
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); United States -- Discovery and exploration; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Caches, how built, 98.
Calumet bird, 43.
Camas, edible root, 179.
Cameahwait, a Shoshonee chief, 157.
Camp, first winter, 48; departure from, 57.
Candle-fish, 252.
Cannonball River, N. D-, 43.
Captain Cook, 3.
Captain Gray, 3.
Captain Vancouver, 3.
Carroll, Mont., 83.
Carver, Jonathan, 5.
Cascades of the Columbia, 262.
Cathedral Rocks, 90-92.
Cheyenne River, 40.
Chinook Indians, 208, some account of, 246.
Chouteau, a St. Louis trader, 355.
Christmas (1804), 52. (1805), 240-
Clark, Captain, biographical notice Of, 7.
general of militia, 359.
Clark’s Fort, 48.
river, 180-63.
party overtaken by disaster, 142.
Clatsop Indians, some account Of, 248.
Clearwater River, 183.
Cloudburst, 116.
Columbia River, discovery Of, 4.
portage to, 108;
at the headwaters of, 148.
at the entrance to, 194.
great falls of, 202;
the great chute Of, 21.
et seq. Comowol, a Columbia River Indian
chief, 239.
Condor, a California variety, 256.
Council Bluffs, 19.
Cowas, an edible root, 278.
Coyote, described, 72.
Crow Indians, 24.
D
Dalles, the, 266.
Dearborn River, 130.
Divide, on the great, 148;
across the, 179.
Dog’s flesh as an article of food, 24.
185-
E
Echeloot Indians, 210.
Elk, hunting of, 251.
Ermine, first seen, 49.
Expedition, Lewis and Clark’s, 7.
Organization of, 8.
route of, 10;
sets sail, 14.
“Experiment,” failure of the boat, 124
F
Falls of the Missouri, 101.
description of, 11. et seq.
Flathead Indians, 211.
Floyd’s River, why so named, 23.
Forks of the Missouri, 135.
Fort Clark, 48.
Clatsop, 255.
G
Gallatin’s fork of the Missouri, 135.
Gates of the Rocky Mountains, 132.
Goose-nests in trees, 61.
gray, Capt., discoverer of the Columbia, 3.
Grizzly bear, first seen, 40.
thrilling encounters with, 72, 76, 77, 105, 115, 315-
H
Horse-flesh eaten by the expedition, 77.
Hungry Creek, 178, 303-
1
Independence Day, celebration of (1805), 123.
(180(i), 327.
Iowa Indians, 16.
Islands, White Bear, 110.
J
Jefferson, President Thomas, 2-4.
his letters to Capt. Lewis, 12.
presents to,
from Lewis and Clark, 55.
welcome to Capt. Lewis on return, 358.
name given
to fork of the Missouri, 135.
John Day’s River, 203-
K
Klikitat River, 214.
Kooskooskee River, 180.
L
Lewis, Capt., biographical notice of, 6, 7.
accidentally wounded, 341;
announces his return, 358.
Governor of Louisiana Territory, 359;
his tragical death, 360.
Lewis and Clark, pursue separate routes across
the Divide, 140.
also on their return, 310.
Lewis’s River, 165.
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