Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE CONQUEST

The True Story of Lewis and Clark

by

EVA EMERY DYE

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JUST READY

THE EXPEDITION
of
LEWIS AND CLARK

Reprinted from the Edition of 1814

With an Introduction and Index
By JAMES K. HOSMER, LL.D.

Notwithstanding that in America few names are more familiar upon the tongue than those of Lewis and Clark, it is a singular fact that the Journals of their expedition have for a long time been practically unattainable. The lack thus existing, felt now more and more as the centenary of the great exploration draws near, this new edition has been planned to fill. The text used is that of the 1814 edition, which must hold its place as the only account approaching adequacy.

Dr. Hosmer, well-known for his work in Western history, has furnished an Introduction, giving the events which led up to the great expedition and showing the vast development that has flowed from it, in a way to make plain the profound significance of the achievement. There has also been added an elaborate analytic Index, a feature which the original edition lacked.

The publishers offer this work in the belief that it will fill all requirements and become the standard popular edition of this great American classic.

_In two square octavo volumes, printed from new type of
a large clear face, with new photogravure
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In box, $5.00 net; delivered, $5.36.

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THE CONQUEST

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BY MRS. DYE

McLOUGHLIN &
OLD OREGON
A Chronicle

FOURTH EDITION
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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, 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.

OREGON CITY, OREGON,
September 1, 1902.

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