R. Lighton

In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to civilization a new empire. This book relates that adventure from it’s inception through it’s completion as well as the effect the expedition had upon the history of the United States. Source: Roger Melin

This edition of the book contains the original frontpiece, rejuvenated, and nine additional, full-color illustrations of the West that are unique to this edition of the book.

William Rheem Lighton (1866-1923), was an American author, editor, journalist and lawyer. He wrote a few novels, romances of rural life, westerns, and historical pieces. Many of his stories depicted "Billy Fortune," a character based on his wife's cousin, a Wyoming homesteader. He and his wife built a farm in Arkansas which they named Happy Hollow Farm. In 1910 he wrote an article The Story of an Arkansas Farm which was published in the Saturday Evening Post. Due to it's popularity it was later expanded into a book, Happy Hollow Farm (1914). He edited Back to the Land magazine between 1910 and 1911. His other works include: Sons of Strength: Kansas (1899), Lewis and Clark (1901), The Ultimate Moment (1903) and Uncle Mac's Nebrasky (1904).