Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage
across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson
shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up
the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along
possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark led this expedition of 1804-6. Along the way they
filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the
geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the
trans-Mississippi West.
This volume consists of journals, primarily by Clark, that cover
the expedition's route up the Missouri River to Fort Mandan in
present-day North Dakota and its frigid winter encampment there. It
describes the party's encounters with and observations of area
Indian tribes. Lewis and Clark collected critical information about
traveling westward from Native Americans during this winter. This
volume also includes miscellaneous material from the Corps of
Discovery's first year.
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