Contents -- Chronology -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. "We Descended with Great Velocity": The Triumphant Return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Chapter 2. "All the Red Men Are My Children": Lewis and Sheheke's Visit to Thomas Jefferson -- Chapter 3. "They Appeared in Violent Rage": Pryor and Shannon's Battle with the Arikara -- Chapter 4. "He Saw the Prairie Behind Him Coveredwith Indians in Full and Rapid Chase": The Adventures of John Colter -- Chapter 5. "This Has Not Been Done Through Malice": George Drouillard's Murder Trial -- Chapter 6. "The Gloomy and Savage Wilderness": The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis -- Chapter 7. "I Give and Recommend My Soul": The Deaths of George Gibson, Jean-Baptiste Lepage, and John Shields -- Chapter 8. "A Sincere and Undisguised Heart": George Shannon's Early Career -- Illustrations -- Chapter 9. "He Must Have Fought in a Circle on Horseback": George Drouillard's Death at the Hands of the Blackfeet -- Chapter 10. "Water as High as the Trees": William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake -- Chapter 11. "She Was a Good and the Best Woman in the Fort": Sacagawea's Death -- Chapter 12. "The Crisis Is Fast Approaching": The Corps and the War of 1812 -- Chapter 13. "We Lost in All Fourteen Killed": John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau Among the Mountain Men -- Chapter 14. "Taken with the Cholera in Tennessee and Died": The Sad Fate of York -- Chapter 15. "Men on Lewis & Clark's Trip": William Clark's Accounting of Expedition Members -- Chapter 16. "Active to the Last": The Final Decades of the Corps -- Appendix A. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Appendix B. The Death of Meriwether Lewis -- Appendix C. The Sacagawea Controversy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.