moments in history 121 Lewis and Clark
meeting with the Shoshones
captain how are the Louis and Lieutenant
William Clark were first reached the
Pacific by crossing the continental
north of Mexico one was a brother of
Roger George Roger Clark Hannibal of the
Missouri and the other was secretary to
Thomas Jefferson who inspired counseled
and partially financed the expedition so
that the recent acquisition of the
Louisiana territories
might be extended to the far northwest
assuring the America had a vast empire
stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific wiping out of the danger of
conflicting bordering nations like those
that have caused constant wars in Europe
they started from st. Louis in 1804 with
a definite task of getting accurate
information about the land and the
Indians to the west they made the
difficult ascent to the Missouri River
crossing the Rockies then descended the
columbia river system to the north to
the ocean their discoveries constituted
our most important claim to the Oregon
Territory
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