Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Politics and Passion: The Exploration of the American Wilderness
Chapter 2 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: The Right Stuff of 1803
Chapter 3 - Just Doing the Best We Can: Development of American Medicine 1620-1803
Chapter 4 - Into the Starting Blocks: The Expedition Prepares
Chapter 5 - Misqutrs on the Ohio: The Trip Gets Underway
Chapter 6 - Snakes in the Grass & Bugs in the River: Rattlers and Diarrhea on the Missouri
Chapter 7 - The Sun and Dying Young: A Lucky Streak Ends
Chapter 8 - They Should Have Danced All Night: "Louis Veneri" Joins the Corps
Chapter 9 - Cold Toes and a Baby Boy: Winter with the Mandans
Chapter 10 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act One: May-June 1805
Chapter 11 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Two: May-July 1805
Chapter 12 - From a Torrent to a Trickle: To the Headwaters of the Missouri
Chapter 13 - No Place for Mockersins: Over the Bitterroots
Chapter 14 - A Winter of Pore Elk and Flees: The Pacific 1805-1806
Chapter 15 - A Clash of Cultures: March-April 1806
Chapter 16 - Frontier Doctor and Medical Diplomats: Great Challenges in Idaho
Chapter 17 - Wild Times in Old Montana: Act Three: June-August 1806
Chapter 18 - Near Disaster and Then . . . : Back Home: August and September 1806
Chapter 19 - Ghosts of Explorations Past: Fates of the Corps of Discovery
Chapter 20 - Fiddles and Friendships: The Sinews of Success
Appendix One - Riddles of Nature: The World's Medical Expedition
Appendix Two - Medicines of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Helpful Pharmacy Terms, Lewis & Clark's Medicine Chest, Instruments and Other Supplies
Notes
Bibliography
Index