Nonfiction · 1901
First Across the Continent
The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
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- Chapter I — A Great Transaction in Land
- Chapter II — Beginning a Long Journey
- Chapter III — From the Lower to the Upper River
- Chapter IV — Novel Experiences among the Indians
- Chapter V — From the Tetons to the Mandans
- Chapter VI — Winter among the Mandans
- Chapter VII — From Fort Mandan to the Yellowstone
- Chapter VIII — In the Haunts of Grizzlies and Buffalo
- Chapter IX — In the Solitudes of the Upper Missouri
- Chapter X — To the Great Falls of the Missouri
- Chapter XI — A the Heart of the Continent
- Chapter XII — At the Sources of the Missouri
- Chapter XIII — From the Minnetarees to the Shoshonees
- Chapter XIV — Across the Great Divide
- Chapter XV — Down the Pacific Slope
- Chapter XVI — Down the Columbia to Tidewater
- Chapter XVII — From Tidewater to the Sea
- Chapter XVIII — Camping by the Pacific
- Chapter XIX — With Faces turned Homeward
- Chapter XX — The Last Stage of the Columbia
- Chapter XXI — Overland east of the Columbia
- Chapter XXII — Camping with the Nez Perces
- Chapter XXIII — Crossing the Bitter Root Mountains
- Chapter XXIV — The Expedition Subdivided
- Chapter XXV — Adventures on the Yellowstone
- Chapter XXVI — The End of a Long Journey
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