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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Noun1.Lewis and Clark Expedition - an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806


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SA * Long considered one of the foremost experts on Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery, James Ronda presents the seven chapters of this little book as if they were a series of reflective essays based on years of scholarship and study.
The rivers here are the Missouri, the Ohio and the Mississippi, and the people include the Osage Nation, French frontier entrepreneurs, the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark and a flood of settlers of various nationalities and expectations called by the riches of the rivers.
While the water Clark saw on that fateful day two centuries ago was not actually the sea--it was the eastern end of what is today called Gray's Bay--the members of the Corps of Discovery were just 20 miles from their goal.
 
 
 
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