Foreword: Course of Discovery viii -- Preface: "Many Extroadenary Stories" xi -- Chapter 1 A Promise of Rivers: Thomas Jefferson and the Exploration of Western Waterways 1 -- Chapter 2 Lewis and Clark in the Age(s) of Exploration 17 -- Chapter 3 "Core" of Discovery 29 -- Map Porteolio: Maps and Storied Landscapes 39 -- Chapter 4 Imagining the West: Through the Eyes of Lewis and Clark 57 -- Chapter 5 A Moment in Time: The West--September, 1806 77 -- Chapter 6 Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Places along the Columbia 97 -- Chapter 7 A Lewis and Clark Homecoming 117.