Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: Wm Clark 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 of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. Their names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.