Meeting Lewis & Clark -- A gunner of the republic -- Captain McClallen -- General Wilkinson -- Floating into the West -- The officers and gentlemen of St. Louis -- Western horizons -- Victims of circumstance -- "Behold the Mexican traveller" -- Lewis and Clark and pinch me -- At the Rubicon -- "Away you rolling river" -- "Reather a speculative expedition -- Peace in mountain time -- Post script to lost letters -- Top of the world -- Following Western waters -- "I could not altogether indianfy my heart" -- Cokalarishkit the protein road -- A step into the abyss -- A shadowed inheritance.