A road through the wilderness -- Meanders : nature and the Missouri River -- Wet and dry mud -- Thirty-seven grizzly bears in the wilderness -- A measured journey -- Buffalo and winter on the plains : technology meets wilderness -- Wolves, people, and biological diversity -- Through the mountains -- Down the Columbia -- Winter and wood on the Pacific Coast -- The return through prairie country.
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Botkin uses the experiences of Lewis and Clark to challenge the myth of a pristine natural past.