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The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Meriwether Lewis

Travel & GeographyEnglish
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In May 1804, soon after the United States bought the vast Louisiana territory from France, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from near St Louis with…

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Author
Meriwether Lewis
Category
Travel & Geography
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

In May 1804, soon after the United States bought the vast Louisiana territory from France, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from near St Louis with the Corps of Discovery to find a route to the Pacific. Their journals record two and a half years of travel: up the Missouri River, the winter among the Mandan people, the Shoshone woman Sacagawea who guided and interpreted with her baby on her back, the grizzly bears and buffalo herds, the crossing of the Rocky Mountains on the edge of starvation, and Clark's cry on reaching the Columbia estuary: 'Ocian in view! O! the joy.'

Context and significance

This edition gives the journal entries from the day the expedition left to its return to St Louis in September 1806, keeping the captains' famously inventive spelling and punctuation. It is one of the founding stories of the American West. The meaning of that West is debated in Turner's The Frontier in American History.

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