Uses quotes from the travelers' own journals to tell the story of the 1804 expedition undertaken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to search for a river route to the Pacific Ocean, and features illustrations based upon descriptions from the journals, as well as drawings and paintings of the time.
General Note
A colored map of the route of Lewis & Clark westward from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean from May 1804 to November 1805 on endpapers.