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On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their group of 40 men, collectively known as the Corps of Discovery, launched their pirogues and keelboat onto the Missouri River at its mouth, some 18 miles from the young town of St. Louis.
- Lewis and Clark: The Waterway to the West - Bureau of Reclamation
Their route up the Missouri River at the Great Falls moved...
- Lewis and Clark: The Waterway to the West - Bureau of Reclamation
- Lewis and Clark's Journey Begins
- A Tense Encounter with The Teton Sioux
- Lewis and Clark Meet Sacagawea
- The Expedition Finds The Shoshone
- Crew Gets Lost in Snow, Nearly Starves to Death
- They Reach The Pacific...Or Not
- Lewis and Clark Reach The Pacific Ocean
- Long-Needed R&R with The Nez Perce
- Lewis Kills A Blackfoot Brave
- Lewis and Clark Arrive Back in St. Louis as Heroes
May 14, 1804 The Corps of Discovery embarks from Camp Dubois outside of St. Louis, Missouri, in a 55-foot keelboat to begin the westward journey up the Missouri River. Among the 41-man crew of volunteers, soldiers and one African American slave, is Patrick Gass, a carpenter from Pennsylvania. Gass writes in his journal about the expected dangers ah...
September 25, 1804 Of all Lewis and Clark’s encounters with Native American tribes, the meeting with the Teton Sioux (Lakota) near modern-day Pierre, South Dakota, is among the most tense. Jefferson had charged the Corps with Indian diplomacy, which consisted mainly of announcing the Louisiana Purchase and presenting tribal chiefs with peace medals...
November 11, 1804 With winter fast approaching, the Corps construct Fort Mandan in North Dakota among the hospitable Mandan and Hitatsa Indians. On November 11, Clark makes a hasty scribble in his journal about the arrival of "two Squars of the Rock Mountain, purchased from the Indians by...a frenchmen." One of those nameless women is the famous Sa...
August 8, 1805 Before she was kidnapped by the Hidatsa at age 12, Sacagawea lived among the Shoshone people along the border of modern-day Montana and Idaho. By August, 1805, Lewis and Clark believe the fate of the expedition hangs on finding the Shoshone and buying horses from them. It’s the only way the Corps can hope to cross the Rocky Mountains...
September 11, 1805 Even with horses and a Shoshone guide named Old Toby, the crossing of the Bitterroot Mountains in Idaho proves to be the most grueling and life-threatening section of the entire journey. It was only mid-September, but the snow on the western flank of the Bitterroots is already deep and Old Toby gets lost. Horses slip and tumble d...
November 7, 1805 After paddling dugout canoes down the treacherous Columbia River for weeks, Clark believes the men have finally reached the Pacific. “Great joy in camp we are in View of the Ocian,” writes Clark with his trademark creative spelling. “This great Pacific Octean which we been So long anxious to See. and the roreing or noise made by th...
November 24 After finally reaching the Pacific Coast, it‘s time to hunker down in Winter quarters. Lewis and Clark put the decision to a vote as to where to build Fort Clatsop, their home for the next five months. A tally of the votes is recorded in Clark’s journal, including historic votes from York, the African American slave, and Sacagawea, an I...
May, 1806 Returning to the Nez Perce, Lewis and Clark go against the natives’ advice and try to cross the thickly forested Bitterroots before the snow fully melts. “It was their only retreat during the whole expedition,” says Buckley. June 8, 1806 The month spent with the Nez Perce waiting for the snow to melt is one of the most enjoyable and leisu...
July 26, 1806 Lewis’s group is met by a small band of Blackfeet warriors in Montana. After camping together overnight, Lewis catches the Blackfeet trying to steal their guns and horses, and kills a young brave. “That was the only native death on the whole expedition,” says Buckley. “And Lewis was so concerned that the Blackfeet would come after him...
September 23, 1806 A month after Lewis and Clark reunite at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone, and weeks after saying goodbye to Sacagawea at Fort Mandan, the Corps of Discovery arrive back in St. Louis, where the exhausted explorers are greeted as heroes. “Even though there were all these difficulties with mountains and rivers and cli...
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Nov 9, 2009 · The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring the lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana...
By August 17 they reached the navigable limits of the Missouri River in the Rocky Mountains, and turned north up the Jefferson River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide through Lemhi Pass, and purchased horses from the Shoshones, Sacagawea’s people.
Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up the Missouri River, across the continental divide to the Pacific Ocean, and back to St. Louis. Remarkably, during its often perilous eight-thousand-mile journey the small military party commanded by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark suffered only a ...
On 1 June 1804, the expedition arrived at the mouth of the Osage River, one of the major Indian trail intersections on the lower Missouri. From the height on the point, Clark wrote: “I had a delightfull prospect of the Missouries up & down, also the Osage R. up.”.
Their route up the Missouri River at the Great Falls moved southwest, not west toward the mountains. Then, as they passed through the Gates of the Mountain on July 19, west of present-day Helena, Montana, the river began its sweep to the south and to Three Forks.
