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 includes Lewis's and Clark's journals beginning in
August 1803, when Lewis left Pittsburgh to join Clark farther down
the Ohio River. The two men and several recruits camped near the
mouth of the Missouri River for five months of training, acquiring
supplies and equipment, and gathering information from travelers
about the trip upriver. They started up the Missouri in May 1804.
This volume ends in August, when the Corps of Discovery camped near
the Vermillion River in present-day South Dakota.
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