KENNETH C. CARSTENS is a professor of archaeology, anthropology, and world geography at Murray State University. He has edited nine books and published more than seventy journal articles. He has studied George Rogers Clark and Clark's Fort Jefferson for twenty-five years. His particular areas of academic interest include Clark, Ohio Valley archaeology and frontier history, cave archaeology, and cultural anthropology.NANCY SON CARSTENS is a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has published in the Filson History Quarterly, Cobblestone American History Magazine, and Current Research in Kentucky Archaeology. She has held positions at The National Scouting Museum, Murray State University, both in Murray, Kentucky, and Adsmore Museum in Princeton, Kentucky. Presently, she is an independent contract archaeologist in Murray, Kentucky.

• Dedication by James Alton James Acknowledgements Contributor's Biographies Foreword by Thomas D. Clark Introduction by Kenneth Carstens and Nancy Carstens George Rogers Clark: The Early Years by Lowell Harrison Clark's Kaskaskia Expedition by Larry Nelson The French Influence on Clark at Kaskaskia by Margaret Brown Clark and the Native Americans by James Alexander Thom The Clark-Teresa "De Leyba" Myth by Nancy Carstens Victory at Vincennes by Robert Holden Clark's Obsession with Detroit by Brian Dunnigan Clark's Fort Jefferson, 1780-1781 by Kenneth Carstens Clark, the Illinois Battalion and the Slave Trade by Pen Bogert Clark's Line of Supply by Greg Holm Clark's 1780 Shawnee Campaign by Martin West Clark's Ambush at Hoods Point, Virginia, 1781 by Greg Holm Clark as a Manager of the Kentucky Frontier, 1783-1809 by James Fisher Clark and the French Conspiracies by Nancy Carstens Clark's Last Years: Locust Grove, 1809-1818 by Julia Parke A Forgotten Hero Remembered, Revered, and Revised: The Legacy and Ordeal of George Rogers Clark by James Fisher An Analysis of Clark Portraits by James Holmberg A Research Bibliography of George Rogers Clark Materials by Kenneth Carstens