Fourteen-year-old Augustus Pelletier, half French and half Omaha Indian, joins Lewis & Clark on their journey from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. His story flows with emotion and action as the unknown territory unfolds before him, from the prairies to the snow-capped Rockies to the golden sea.

		May 13, 1805 I can't quite believe I am all here because it's just short of a miracle that parts of me aren't floating around in the gut of a grizzly bear...It was the biggest grizzly ever! Least, biggest, I'd seen...it was me who was right in that bear's sights, directly between him and the water... I almost made it into the canoe but fell into the water...I took a huge gulp of air and dove. It wasn't that deep and I swear I felt that bear's claw on my moccasin. I scraped my chin on the rocky bottom but I just kept swimming. Go deep! Go deep! The words pounded in my head. Maybe that bear won't smell me if I'm deep.