The story of the expedition of Lewis and Clark is the foundation of the history of the great Northwest and the Missouri Valley.  These men and their devoted band of followers were the first to break into the world-old solitudes of the heart of the continent and to explore the mountain fastnesses in which the mighty Columbia has its birth.  Following in their footsteps, the hardy American emigrant, trader, adventurer, and home-seeker penetrated the wilderness, and, building better than they knew, laid the foundations of populous and thriving States.  Peaceful farms and noble cities, towns and villages, thrilling with the hum of modern industry and activity, are spread over the vast spaces through which the explorers threaded their toilsome trail, amid incredible privations and hardships, showing the way westward across the boundless continent which is ours.  Let the names of those two men long be held in grateful honor by the American people!

INDEX

     A

     Alkali, natural deposits of, 60. 
     Antelope, first seen, 29, how hunted, 69. 
     Assiniboins, at war with Sioux, 49.

     B

Beaver, hunted as game, 70, Beaver Head, 143.  Big Dry River, 75.  Bismarck, N. D., 44.  Bitter Root Mountains, 147.  Black Cat, a Mandan chief, 342.  Boone, Daniel, 14.  Buffalo, first signs of, 16; hunt, 51; curious adventure with, 87; extermination of, 338.

     C

     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