List of Illustrations......................................................................... viii
Acknowledgments ........................................................................... ix

Introduction                .......................................................................................1
1. The Meeting        ....................................................................................5
2. Winter      ............................................................................................16
3. Against the Current .....................................................................25
4. Over the Top      .................................................................................41
5. Fort Clatsop                  ..................................................................................47
6. Homeward Bound .......................................................................55
7. Afterward     ......................................................................................68
8. Father and Son.................................................76
9. At Home and Abroad ............................................... 80
10. The Prince and the Frontiersman........................................85
11. Glimpses of Baptiste..................................................................92
12. Desolation on the Missouri......................................................96
13. Westward Once More.............................................................. 106
14. John B. Charbonneau .............................................................. 117

Epilogue             .......................................................................................... 123
Notes ................................................................................................ 133
Bibliography...................................................... 157
Index        ................................................................................................169