WILLIAM R. LIGHTON
Reading edition
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
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