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.
In April 1805 Lewis and Clark and their party set out from Fort
Mandan following the Missouri River westward. This volume recounts
their travels through country never before explored by white
people. With new personnel, including the Shoshone Indian woman
Sacagawea, her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, and their baby,
nicknamed Pomp, the party spent the rest of the spring and early
summer toiling up the Missouri. Along the way they portaged the
difficult Great Falls, encountered grizzly bears, cataloged new
species of plants and animals, and mapped rivers and streams.
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