Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Chronology xiii
4. Prologue 1
5. Chapter 1. “We Descended with Great Velocity” 5
6. Chapter 2. “All the Red Men Are My Children” 23
7. Chapter 3. “They Appeared in Violent Rage” 28
8. Chapter 4. “He Saw the Prairie Behind Him Covered with Indians in Full and Rapid Chase” 38
9. Chapter 5. “This Has Not Been Done Through Malice” 49
10. Chapter 6. “The Gloomy and Savage Wilderness” 54
11. Chapter 7. “I Give and Recommend My Soul” 75
12. Chapter 8. “A Sincere and Undisguised Heart” 82
13. Chapter 9. “He Must Have Fought in a Circle on Horseback” 89
14. Chapter 10. “Water as High as the Trees” 97
15. Chapter 11. “She Was a Good and the Best Woman in the Fort” 106
16. Chapter 12. “The Crisis Is Fast Approaching” 118
17. Chapter 13. “We Lost in All Fourteen Killed” 127
18. Chapter 14. “Taken with the Cholera in Tennessee and Died” 139
19. Chapter 15. “Men on Lewis & Clark’s Trip” 149
20. Chapter 16. “Active to the Last” 162
21. Appendix A 187
22. Appendix B 203
23. Appendix C 210
24. Notes 215
25. Bibliography 255
26. Acknowledgments 271
27. Index 273