OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK [Illustration: DID THEY SET THE PRAIRIE AFIRE JUST TO BURN HIM, A BOY?] OPENING THE WEST WITH LEWIS AND CLARK BY BOAT, HORSE AND FOOT UP THE GREAT RIVER MISSOURI, ACROSS THE STONY MOUNTAINS AND ON TO THE PACIFIC, WHEN IN THE YEARS 1804, 1805, 1806, YOUNG CAPTAIN LEWIS THE LONG KNIFE AND HIS FRIEND CAPTAIN CLARK THE RED HEAD CHIEF, AIDED BY SACAJAWEA THE BIRD-WOMAN, CONDUCTED THEIR LITTLE BAND OF MEN TRIED AND TRUE THROUGH THE UNKNOWN NEW UNITED STATES BY EDWIN L. SABIN AUTHOR OF “THE GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49,” “WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS,” ETC. _FRONTISPIECE BY_ CHARLES H. STEPHENS [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY TWELFTH IMPRESSION PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE WESTERN RED MAN WHO FIRST OWNED FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, BUT WHOM THE WHITE MEN THAT CAME AFTER LEWIS AND CLARK TREATED NEITHER WISELY NOR WELL “Our Country’s glory is our chief concern; For this we struggle, and for this we burn; For this we smile, for this alone we sigh; For this we live, for this we freely die.” FOREWORD As time passes, the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, fathered by the great President Jefferson, should shine brighter and brighter amidst the other pages of American history. The purchase of the Province of Louisiana was opposed by many citizens. They were ignorant and short-sighted; they asserted that here was a useless burden of waste land fitted only to the Indian and the fur-trader; that the people of the United States should occupy themselves with the land east of the Mississippi. But wiser men prevailed. The expedition launched boldly out into the unknown, to carry the flag now into the new country, and perhaps to make possible the ownership of still a farther country, at the Pacific Ocean.