Farught With Difficulties

HELENA, MT: FWD, LLC, 2015. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. pp. 274. Title Farught with Difficulties: Volume One Author Jeffrey P. Havens Publisher FWD, LLC, 2015 ISBN 0692492666, 9780692492666 Length 274 pages. The exciting quest to find the fabled Northwest Passage begins in Volume One on the Lewis and Clark trail! Follow the Missouri River from St. Louis to its ultimate source in the untamed mountains of today's southwestern Montana, while encountering many friendly and hostile Native American tribes, and experiencing the hardships of rugged travel during the difficult expansion of a great nation in its infancy. In 1803, United States Army officers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark accepted a dangerous mission to explore the western portion of what today is the United States. The mission was offered by President Thomas Jefferson to Lewis who chose Clark to help lead the expedition. The mission had many purposes. Among the purposes was to document whether a water route existed to the Pacific Ocean, which was known as the Northwest Passage. The novel includes a comprehensive timeline, source list, bibliography, index, and alphabetical list of characters.