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