Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by James J. Holmberg
Preface: The Unknown William Clark
Part I. A Small Adventure of Tobacco, March 8 to April 23, 1798
1. My Wish Is on the Mississippi
2. Wind Rose, Blew, and Snowed
3. Big Little Man
4. No Sort of Trick Is Involved
5. A Grand Tribute to General Wilkinson
6. These Infernal Bluffs
7. A Spy for the British, a Spy for the Spanish, and a Spy for Somebody Else
8. A Spanish Lady Going to General Wilkinson
9. The Gibraltar of Louisiana
10. That Miserable Natchez Fort
11. The Most Fortunate and Glorious Commotion
12. I Could Not Carry Our Plan in Execution
13. The Door to the Whole Western Country
Part II. Important Connections from New Orleans to Natchez and Back Again, April 24 to August 15, 1798
14. Was Politely Received and Treated by All
15. You Know the Nature of This Business
16. An Alarm about a British Frigate
17. An Uproar about a War
18. The Money Is for Mr. Riddle
19. A Highly Beneficial but Illicit Monopoly
20. At Ellicott’s Camp on the Line
21. The Nature of the Boundary Business
22. The Object of the Plotters
23. Mr. Clark, Anxious to Pursue His Journey
24. I Take a Passage on the Ship Star
25. An Insult to His Majesty
Part III. The Homeward Journey, August 16 to December 24, 1798
26. So Reduced I Can Scarcely Walk
27. A Thirteen-Gun Salute for Agent 13
28. Go, Before It Is Too Late
29. The Sailors Soon Commenced a Riot
30. The Design of the Visit
31. The End of the Journey
Part IV. More Hardship and Challenge, 1799 to 1807
32. Not the Least Shadow of Succeeding
33. The Sport of Fortune
34. Any Post of Honor and Profit
35. A Distant and Splendid Enterprise
36. Standing High with Mr. Jefferson
Epilogue: The Mammoth of Iniquity Escaped
So, Did “Nothing Extraordinary” Happen?
Appendix A. Dramatis Personae
Appendix B. Our Clark Relics: The Curious Path of the Journal, from Clark to the Present
Appendix C. Buried in the Womb of Time: Spanish Sources of This Story
Appendix D. Transcription of Diary Entries in the 1798 Journal
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index