Includes bibliographical references and index

"We descended with great velocity", The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children", Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson -- "They appeared in violent rage", Pryor and Shannon's battle with Arikara -- "He saw the prairie behind him covered with Indians in full and rapid chase", The adventures of John Colter -- "This has not been done through malice", George Drouillard's murder trial -- "The gloomy and savage wilderness", The mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis -- "I give and recommend my soul", The deaths of George Gibson, Jean-Baptiste Lepage, and John Shields -- "A sincere and undisguised heart", George Shannon's early career -- "He must have fought in a circle on horseback", George Drouillard's death at the hands of the Blackfeet -- "Water as high as the trees", William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake -- "She was a good and the best woman in the Fort", Sacagawea's death -- "The crisis is fast approaching", the Corps and the War of 1812 -- "We lost in all fourteen killed", John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau among the mountain men -- "Taken with the cholera in Tennessee and died", The sad fate of York -- "Men on Lewis & Clark's trip", William Clark's accounting of expedition members -- "Active to the last", The final decades of the Corps

"This book concentrates on fascinating events: the death of Meriwether Lewis; George Drouillard's murder trial; the New Madrid earthquakes; the rift between William Clark and York; John Collins's death at the hands of the Arikara"--Page 4

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