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.
The late-summer and fall months of 1805 were the most difficult
period of Lewis and Clark's journey. This volume documents their
travels from the Three Forks of the Missouri River in present-day
Montana to the Cascades of the Columbia River on today's
Washington-Oregon border, including the expedition's progress over
the rugged Bitterroot Mountains, along the nearly impenetrable Lolo
Trail. Along the way, the explorers encounter Shoshones, Flatheads,
Nez Perces, and other Indian tribes, some of whom had never before
met white people.
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