The Start

June and July

The First Indian Council

The Mountain of Little People

The Council with the Sioux

An Indian Dance

Winter among the Mandans

Indian Hunts

The Mandan Indians

The Winter

Fights with Grizzly Bears

An Important Decision

Making a Cache

An Exciting Morning

Passing the Falls

Up the Jefferson River

The Columbia River Reached

Among the Indians

Hesitation

Down the Snake River

Down the Columbia

Fort Clatsop and the Start Home

Ascent of the Columbia

Crossing the Bitter Root Mountains

Captain Lewis's Adventures

Captain Clark's Adventures

The End of the Great Expedition

THE STORY OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT

A Start in Life

First Work for the Government

Second Expedition with Nicollet

Marriage

First Independent Western Expedition

The Party Divided

Second Independent Expedition

In the Far Northwest

Over the Sierra Nevadas

The Descent into the Valley

Homeward

Troubles with Mexicans

A Government Message

Frémont's War

The Fourth Expedition

The Last Years of Life

THE STORY OF ELISHA KENT KANE

Boyhood

Studies Medicine

In Foreign Lands

In Mexico

Sent to the Arctic Seas

In the Polar Regions

Fast in the Ice

Bears and Walruses

Traces of Franklin

Winter in the Ice

Off for Home

Plans for a New Expedition

Journeying by Land and Sea

A Visit from Eskimos

Another Arctic Winter

The "Advance" Left in the Ice

Home Again