CONTENTS
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
The people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had sold to us the vast tract of land known as the country of Louisiana. The details of this purchase were arranged in Paris (on the part of the United States) by Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe. The French government was represented by Barbe-Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury.