Four American Explorers
by Nellie F. Kingsley
Description: Four brief biographies which relate the exploits of some of 19th century America’s principal adventurers. Guided by Kingsley’s vivid prose, readers go along for the journey as Lewis and Clark explore the vast tracts of the Louisiana Purchase, John Fremont ventures into Oregon and California, and Elisha Kent Kane pushes north toward the Pole. Full of brave deeds in the face of daunting odds, this book will leave even a restless child hungry for another chapter.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Two Captains
3. The Start
4. June and July
5. The First Indian Council
6. The Mountain of Little People
7. The Council with the Sioux
8. An Indian Dance
9. Winter among the Mandans
10. Indian Hunts
11. The Mandan Indians
12. The Winter
13. Fights with Grizzly Bears
14. An Important Decision
15. Making a Cache
16. An Exciting Morning
17. Passing the Falls
18. Up the Jefferson River
19. The Columbia River Reached
20. Among the Indians
21. Hesitation
22. Down the Snake River
23. Down the Columbia
24. Fort Clatsop and the Start Home
25. Ascent of the Columbia
26. Crossing the Bitter Root Mountains
27. Captain Lewis's Adventures
28. Captain Clark's Adventures
29. The End of the Great Expedition
30. A Start in Life
31. First Work for the Government
32. Second Expedition with Nicollet
33. Marriage
34. First Independent Western Expedition
35. The Party Divided
36. Second Independent Expedition
37. In the Far Northwest
38. Over the Sierra Nevadas
39. The Descent into the Valley
40. Homeward
41. Troubles with Mexicans
42. A Government Message
43. Frémont's War
44. The Fourth Expedition
45. The Last Years of Life
46. Boyhood
47. Studies Medicine
48. In Foreign Lands
49. In Mexico
50. Sent to the Arctic Seas
51. In the Polar Regions
52. Fast in the Ice
53. Bears and Walruses
54. Traces of Franklin
55. Winter in the Ice
56. Off for Home
57. Plans for a New Expedition
58. Journeying by Land and Sea
59. A Visit from Eskimos
60. Another Arctic Winter
61. The " Advance" Left in the Ice
62. Home Again
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