# The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark

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THE CONQUEST
The True Story of Lewis and Clark
BY
EVA EMERY DYE
Author of
"McLoughlin and Old Oregon "
Chicago
A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY 1902
COPYRIGHT
A. C. MCCLURG & Co
1902
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
PUBLISHED Nov. 12, 1902
UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON
AND SON CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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, docu ments, 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 manu scripts, 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 His torical 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 Perce 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.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, September 1, 1902.
CONTENTS
BOOK I :
| WHEN RED MEN RULED |||
| PAGE |||
| I. | A Child is Born | 1 |
| II. | The Clark Home | 7 |
| III. | Exit Dunmore | 12 |
| IV. | The Wilderness Road | 14 |
| V. | A Barrel of Gunpowder | 17 |
| VI. | The Feudal Age | 19 |
| VII. | Kaskaskia | 24 |
| VIII. | The Spanish Donna | 28 |
| IX. | Vincennes | 32 |
| X. | The City of the Strait | 38 |
| XI. | A Prisoner of War | 41 |
| XII. | Two Wars at Once | 43 |
| XIII. | The Key of the Country | 47 |
| XIV. | Behind the Curtain | 50 |
| XV. | The Attack on St. Louis | 53 |
| XVI. | Old Chillicothe | 60 |
| XVII. | "Detroit must be Taken" | 63 |
| XVIII. | On the Ramparts | 69 |
| XIX. | Exit Cornwallis | 72 |
| XX. | The Old Virginia Home | 77 |
| XXI. | Down the Ohio | 81 |
| XXII. | Mulberry Hill | 87 |
| XXIII. | Mississippi Troubles | 91 |
| XXIV. | St. Clair | 97 |
| XXV. | The Sword of "Mad Anthony" Wayne | 102 |
| XXVI. | The Spaniard | 106 |
| XXVII. | The Brothers | 113 |
| XXVIII. | The Maid of Fincastle | 119 |
| XXIX. | The President's Secretary | 122 |
| XXX. | The President talks with Meriwether | 131 |
| BOOK II |||
| INTO THE WEST |||
| I. | The Louisiana Purchase | 139 |
| II. | The Knight of the White House | 144 |
| III. | Recruiting for Oregon | 149 |
| IV. | The Feud is Ended | 154 |
| V. | The Cession of St. Louis | 157 |
| VI. | Sergeant Ordway writes a Letter | 166 |
| VII. | Into the Land of Anarchy | 167 |
| VIII. | "The Sioux! The Sioux!" | 176 |
| IX. | The Romance of the Mandans | 185 |
| X. | The First Dakota Christmas | 192 |
| XI. | The British Fur Traders | 199 |
| XII. | Farewell to Fort Mandan | 204 |
| XIII. | Toward the Sunset | 208 |
| XIV. | The Shining Mountains | 214 |
| XV. | A Woman Pilot | 221 |
| XVI. | Idaho | 228 |
| XVII. | Down the Columbia | 235 |
| XVIII. | Fort Clatsop by the Sea | 242 |
| XIX. | A Whale Ashore | 249 |
| XX. | A Race for Empire | 257 |
| XXI. | "A Ship! A Ship!" | 259 |
| XXII. | Back to Civilisation | 265 |
| XXIII. | Camp Chopunnish | 272 |
| XXIV. | Over the Bitter Root Range | 277 |
| XXV. | Beware the Blackfeet | 279 |
| XXVI. | Down the Yellowstone | 283 |
| XXVII. | The Home Stretch | 288 |
| XXVIII. | The Old Stone Forts of St. Louis | 296 |
| XXIX. | To Washington | 303 |
| XXX. | The Plaudits of a Nation | 307 |
| BOOK III |||
| THE RED HEAD CHIEF |||
| I. | The Shadow of Napoleon | 315 |
| II. | American Rule in St. Louis | 319 |
| III. | Farewell to Fincastle | 322 |
| IV. | The Boat Horn | 327 |
| V. | A Bride in St. Louis | 331 |
| VI. | The First Fort in Montana | 335 |
| VII. | A Mystery | 337 |
| VIII. | A Lonely Grave in Tennessee | 343 |
| IX. | Trade follows the Flag | 344 |
| X. | Tecumseh | 352 |
| XI. | Clark guards the Frontier | 360 |
| XII. | The Story of a Sword | 369 |
| XIII. | Portage des Sioux | 376 |
| XIV. | "For our Children, our Children" | 386 |
| XV. | Too Good to the Indians | 390 |
| XVI. | The Red Head Chief | 397 |
| XVII. | The Great Council at Prairie du Chien | 404 |
| XVIII. | The Lords of the Rivers | 415 |
| XIX. | Four Indian Ambassadors | 421 |
| XX. | Black Hawk | 429 |
| XXI. | A Great Life Ends | 434 |
| XXII. | The New West | 438 |
XXVII. THE BROTHERS 113
XXVIII. THE MAID OF FINCASTLE 119
XXX. THE PRESIDENT TALKS WITH MERIWETHER . . 131
BOOK II
INTO THE WEST
I. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE 139
II. THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE HOUSE . . . . 144
III. RECRUITING FOR OREGON 149
IV. THE FEUD is ENDED 154
V. THE CESSION OF ST. Louis 157
VI. SERGEANT ORDWAY WRITES A LETTER . . . . 166
VII. INTO THE LAND OF ANARCHY 167
VIII. "THE Sioux! THE Sioux!" 176
IX. THE ROMANCE OF THE MANDANS . . . . . 185
X. THE FIRST DAKOTA CHRISTMAS 192
XL THE BRITISH FUR TRADERS 199
XII. FAREWELL TO FORT MANDAN 204
XIII. TOWARD THE SUNSET 208
XIV. THE SHINING MOUNTAINS 214
XV. A WOMAN PILOT 221
XVI. IDAHO 228
XVII. DOWN THE COLUMBIA 235
XVIII. FORT CLATSOP BY THE SEA 242
XIX. A WHALE ASHORE 249
XX. A RACE FOR EMPIRE 257
XXI. "A SHIP! A SHIP!" 259
XXII. BACK TO CIVILISATION 265
XXIII. CAMP CHOPUNNISH 272
XXIV. OVER THE BITTER ROOT RANGE 277
XXV. BEWARE THE BLACKFEET -279 ​Page:The Conquest.djvu/15
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