Chronology
Prologue
"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 the 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
Appendix A. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Appendix B. The death of Meriwether Lewis
Appendix C. The Sacagawea controversy.