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Eva Emery Dye. The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark (Eva Emery Dye) - illustrated - (Literary Thoughts Edition)
Literary Thoughts Edition presents. The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark, by Eva Emery Dye
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Book I – WHEN RED MEN RULED
Chapter I – A CHILD IS BORN
Chapter II – THE CLARK HOME
Chapter III – EXIT DUNMORE
Chapter IV – THE WILDERNESS ROAD
Chapter V – A BARREL OF GUNPOWDER
Chapter VI – THE FEUDAL AGE
Chapter VII – KASKASKIA
Chapter VIII – THE SPANISH DONNA
Chapter IX – VINCENNES
Chapter X – THE CITY OF THE STRAIT
Chapter XI – A PRISONER OF WAR
Chapter XII – TWO WARS AT ONCE
Chapter XIII – THE KEY OF THE COUNTRY
Chapter XIV – BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Chapter XV – THE ATTACK ON ST. LOUIS
Chapter XVI – OLD CHILLICOTHE
Chapter XVII – "DETROIT MUST BE TAKEN"
Chapter XVIII – ON THE RAMPARTS
Chapter XIX – EXIT CORNWALLIS
Chapter XX – THE OLD VIRGINIA HOME
Chapter XXI – DOWN THE OHIO
Chapter XXII – MULBERRY HILL
Chapter XXIII – MISSISSIPPI TROUBLES
Chapter XXIV – ST. CLAIR
Chapter XXV – THE SWORD OF "MAD ANTHONY" WAYNE
Chapter XXVI – THE SPANIARD
Chapter XXVII – THE BROTHERS
Chapter XXVIII – THE MAID OF FINCASTLE
Chapter XXIX – THE PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY
Chapter XXX – THE PRESIDENT TALKS WITH MERIWETHER
Chapter I – THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
Chapter II – THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
Chapter III – RECRUITING FOR OREGON
Chapter IV – THE FEUD IS ENDED
Chapter V – THE CESSION OF ST. LOUIS
Chapter VI – SERGEANT ORDWAY WRITES A LETTER
Chapter VII – INTO THE LAND OF ANARCHY
Chapter VIII – "THE SIOUX! THE SIOUX!"
Chapter IX – THE ROMANCE OF THE MANDANS
Chapter X – THE FIRST DAKOTA CHRISTMAS
Chapter XI – THE BRITISH FUR TRADERS
Chapter XII – FAREWELL TO FORT MANDAN
Chapter XIII – TOWARD THE SUNSET
Chapter XIV – THE SHINING MOUNTAINS
Chapter XV – A WOMAN PILOT
Chapter XVI – IDAHO
Chapter XVII – DOWN THE COLUMBIA
Chapter XVIII – FORT CLATSOP BY THE SEA
Chapter XIX – A WHALE ASHORE
Chapter XX – A RACE FOR EMPIRE
Chapter XXI – "A SHIP! A SHIP!"
Chapter XXII – BACK TO CIVILISATION
Chapter XXIII – CAMP CHOPUNNISH
Chapter XXIV – OVER THE BITTER ROOT RANGE
Chapter XXV – BEWARE THE BLACKFEET!
Chapter XXVI – DOWN THE YELLOWSTONE
Chapter XXVII – THE HOME STRETCH
Chapter XXVIII – THE OLD STONE FORTS OF ST. LOUIS
Chapter XXIX – TO WASHINGTON
Chapter XXX – THE PLAUDITS OF A NATION
Chapter I – THE SHADOW OF NAPOLEON
Chapter II – AMERICAN RULE IN ST. LOUIS
Chapter III – FAREWELL TO FINCASTLE
Chapter IV – THE BOAT HORN
Chapter V – A BRIDE IN ST. LOUIS
Chapter VI – THE FIRST FORT IN MONTANA
Chapter VII – A MYSTERY
Chapter VIII – A LONELY GRAVE IN TENNESSEE
Chapter IX – TRADE FOLLOWS THE FLAG
Chapter X – TECUMSEH
Chapter XI – CLARK GUARDS THE FRONTIER
Chapter XII – THE STORY OF A SWORD
Chapter XIII – ORTAGE DES SIOUX
Chapter XIV – "FOR OUR CHILDREN, OUR CHILDREN!"
Chapter XV – TOO GOOD TO THE INDIANS
Chapter XVI – THE RED HEAD CHIEF
Chapter XVII – THE GREAT COUNCIL AT PRAIRIE DU CHIEN
Chapter XVIII – THE LORDS OF THE RIVERS
Chapter XIX – FOUR INDIAN AMBASSADORS
Chapter XX – BLACK HAWK
Chapter XXI – A GREAT LIFE ENDS
Chapter XXII – THE NEW WEST
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The author hereby acknowledges obligation to the Lewis and Clark families, especially to William Hancock Clark of Washington, D.C., and John O'Fallon Clark of St. Louis, grandsons of Governor Clark, and to C. Harper Anderson of Ivy Depot, Virginia, the nephew and heir of Meriwether Lewis, for letters, documents, and family traditions; to Mrs. Meriwether Lewis Clark of Louisville and Mrs. Jefferson K. Clark of New York, widows of Governor Clark's sons, and to more than twenty nieces and nephews; to Reuben Gold Thwaites of the University of Wisconsin, for access to the valuable Draper Collection of Clark, Boone, and Tecumseh manuscripts, and for use of the original journals of Lewis and Clark which Mr. Thwaites is now editing; to George W. Martin of the Kansas Historical Society at Topeka, for access to the Clark letter-books covering William Clark's correspondence for a period of thirty years; to Colonel Reuben T. Durrett of Louisville, for access to his valuable private library; to Mr. Horace Kephart of the Mercantile Library, and Mr. Pierre Chouteau, St. Louis; to the Historical Societies of Missouri, at St. Louis and Columbia; to Mrs. Laura Howie, for Montana manuscripts at Helena; to Miss Kate C. McBeth, the greatest living authority on Nez Percé tradition; to the descendants of Dr. Saugrain, and to the families and friends of Sergeants Pryor, Gass, Floyd, Ordway, and privates Bratton, Shannon, Drouillard, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; also to the Librarian of Congress for copies of Government Documents.
E. E. D.
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"Why is my lord safe in the enemy's country?"
"Why did the Indians fall upon us while the Governor sat in the Shawnee towns?"
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