OPENING THE WEST WITH
LEWIS AND CLARK
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, WHENIN THE YEARS 1804, 1805, 1806, YOUNG CAPTAIN LEWIS THELONG KNIFE AND HIS FRIEND CAPTAIN CLARK THE RED HEADCHIEF, AIDED BY SACAJAWEA THE BIRD-WOMAN, CONDUCTEDTHEIR LITTLE BAND OF MEN TRIED AND TRUE THROUGH THEUNKNOWN NEW UNITED STATES
BY
AUTHOR OF “THE GOLD SEEKERS OF ’49,”
“WITH SAM HOUSTON IN TEXAS,” ETC.
FRONTISPIECE BY
PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
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 LEWISAND CLARK TREATED NEITHER WISELY NOR WELL
As time passes, the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition,fathered by the great President Jefferson,should shine brighter and brighter amidst the otherpages of American history.
The purchase of the Province of Louisiana wasopposed by many citizens. They were ignorant andshort-sighted; they asserted that here was a uselessburden of waste land fitted only to the Indian andthe fur-trader; that the people of the United Statesshould occupy themselves with the land east of theMississippi.
But wiser men prevailed. The expedition launchedboldly out into the unknown, to carry the flag now intothe new country, and perhaps to make possible theownership of still a farther country, at the PacificOcean.
Time proved the wisdom of President Jefferson’spreparations made even before the territory had beenbought. Just at the right moment the trail across thecontinent was opened. Louisiana Territory was valuedat its