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September 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The Countrey from the mountains to the river hills is a leavel rich butifull Pine Countrey badly watered, thinly timbered & covered with grass—    The weather verry worm after decending into the low Countrey,—    the river hills are verry high & Steep, Small bottoms    to this little river which is Flat head (Flathead Indians) & is 160 yards wide and Sholey    This river is the one we killed the first Coalt on near a fishing were I am verry Sick to day and puke which relive me.
  • September 21, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 17, 1805 - Clark, William
  • The name táptat refers to a Yakima (Yakima Indians) village on the Yakima River (Yakima (Tapteete) River) , near Prosser (Prosser, Wash.) , Benton County (Benton County, Wash.) .
  • October 17, 1805
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  • Clark, William
October 26, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • Saturday October 26th    A clear pleasant morning, and we continued at our Encampment near the point of rocks, with 2 Centinals placed to guard us.    Our hunters were sent out in order to hunt for game.   
  • October 26, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
November 30, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we asscended this stream about 2 m. it's course being S. 15 E.    we halted near a small cops of tim- bered land to which we walked and dined 〈after which〉 Sent out three men to examin the country to the S. & W.   
  • November 30, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
December 9, 1805 - Clark, William
  • .—    when I was Disposed to go to Sleep the man who' had been most attentive named Cus-ka-lah (Cus-ka-lah) produced 2 new mats and Spred them near the fire, and derected his wife to go to his bead which was the Signal for all to retire which they did emediately.   
  • December 9, 1805
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  • Clark, William
January 9, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the deer are extreemly scarce in this neighbourhood, some are to be found near the praries and open grounds along the coast.    this evening we heard seven guns in quick succession after each other, they appeared to be on the Creek to the South of us and several miles distant; I expect that the hunters Drewyer (Drouillard, George) and Collins (Collins, John) have fallen in with a gang of Elk.   
  • January 9, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 14, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Some handsom Cascades are Seen on either Side tumbling from the Stupendious rocks of the mountains into the river. I observe near the river the long leafed Pine which increas as we assend and Superseeds the fir altogether about the Sepulchre rock (Lower Memaloose Island (Sepulcher Rock)) .
  • April 14, 1806
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  • Clark, William
May 30, 1806 - Clark, William
  • one of the men brought me to day Some Onions from the high plains of a different Species from those near the borders of the river as they are also from the Shive or Small Onion noticed below the Falls of Columbia (Columbia River, Great Falls of the) .   
  • May 30, 1806
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  • Clark, William
Weather, July 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • N E c a f h r T & L N E 29th r a r T & L— S W c a r N E 30th r a r N E r N E 31st c a r N E r N W [Remarks] 1st a speceis of wild clover with a small leaf just in blume. 3rd the turtle dove lays it's eggs on the ground in these plains and is now seting, it has two eggs only and they are white. 5th a great number of pigeons breeding in this part of the mountains musquetoes not so troblesome as near Clark's river (Clark Fork (Clark's, East Fork Clark's, Flathead) River) .   
  • Weather, July 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 25, 1806 - Clark, William
  • "Pania Island (Cheyenne (Pawnee) Island) ," on or near which the party camped on September 30, 1804, is the later Cheyenne Island (Cheyenne (Pawnee) Island) , just below the mouth of the Cheyenne River (Cheyenne River) in Sully County (Sully County, S.
  • August 25, 1806
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  • Clark, William
September 10, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The camp on the sandbar would have been in either Richardson County (Richardson County, Nebr.) , Nebraska (Nebraska) , or Holt County (Holt County, Mo.) , Missouri (Missouri) , above the Big Nemaha River (Big Nemaha River) near Rulo (Rulo, Nebr.) , Nebraska (Nebraska) . MRC map 19.
  • September 10, 1806
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  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • They nervously identified certain tracks they discovered near Traveler's Rest as left by the Pahkees. Suddenly they decided they wanted to go home, and it was only with difficulty that the captains persuaded them to continue far enough to put Lewis on the right "road to the buffalo."
  • On the 16th, with no remarks about providence, Lewis, Drouillard, and the Field brothers started north, planning to intersect the Marias near the point where Lewis had turned back from his exploration of the river the previous year.
  • The Field brothers spread out their blankets close to the fire, which was built near the shelter. Each group, seeking perhaps to bluff the other, said it had many friends nearby.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
August 13, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • at the distance of five miles the road after leading us down a long decending valley for 2 Ms. brought us to a large creek about 10 yds wide; this we passed and on rising the hill beyond it had a view of a handsome little valley to our left of about a mile in width through which from the appearance of the timber I conjectured that a river passed. I saw near the creek some bushes of the white maple, the 〈small〉 shumate of the small species with the winged rib, and a species of honeysuckle much in it's growth and leaf like the small honeysuckle of the Missouri (Missouri River) only reather larger and bears a globular berry as large as a garden pea and as white as wax.   
  • they caught a number of fine trout as they have every day since I left them. they encamped on Lrd. in a smooth level prarie near a few cottonwood trees, but were obliged to make use of the dry willow brush for fuel.— Courses and distances travelled by Capt.
  • The source of either of these materials was probably the area of the Ruby Range (Ruby Range) near Dillon (Dillon, Idaho) , Beaverhead County (Beaverhead County, Mont.) , Montana (Montana) .
  • August 13, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Then in 1798, he was placed on recruiting duty at Charlottesville, Virginia, near his home—and Jefferson's. He stayed there well into 1799. Certainly he saw the vice-president during that period.
  • A whole new administration had to be given shape, and yet Jefferson, ignoring qualified applicants near at hand, took time enough to reach out into the wilderness and hire Captain Meriwether Lewis as his private secretary.
  • As soon as the Spanish barrier vanished, and most people believed the time was near, the army would take its place in the vanguard of the western surge.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • A natural animal trap called the Big Bone Lick lay near the outskirts of Cincinnati. Animals coming there during many centuries to lick salt sometimes became mired.
  • The usual route ran close to the north (Indiana) side, where Clarksville lay near the bottom of the turbulence. Louisville stood opposite, in Kentucky.
  • (Moulton, Atlas, maps 3a, 3b.) Later, near Cahokia, December 7, Clark reported that a violent wind blew down one of the masts.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 7. Down the Columbia
  • Twisted Hair and Tetoharsky did their advance work skillfully; on October 16 near the Snake-Columbia junction, Clark saw five Indians coming upriver "in great haste."
  • As the expedition continued down the Columbia and neared the mouth of the Umatilla River, Indian reactions began to change dramatically.
  • During the early days of November, as the explorers entered Skilloot territories—near present-day Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington—they noted an ever increasing stock of European goods.
  • N.D.
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  • James P. Ronda
May 5, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • a number of indians beside the inhabitants of these lodges geathered about us this evening and encamped in the timbered bottom on the creek near us.    we met with a snake indian (Shoshone Indians) man at this place through whome we spoke at some length to the natives this evening with rispect to the objects which had induced us to visit their country.   
  • Although no Nez Perce (Nez Perce Indians) site is indicated as being here on the map, this same village had been visited the previous year when the inhabitants helped the party retrieve goods and repair a cracked canoe that sank near here on October 8, 1805. This village was partially excavated by archaeologists in 1967, but by then it had largely been destroyed by private collectors; see October 8, 1805.
  • May 5, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 22, 1804 - Clark, William
  • This site, which they called Camp White Catfish (Camp White Catfish (Iowa)) , was on the Iowa (Iowa) side, near the Mills (Mills County, Iowa) -Pottawattamie (Pottawattamie County, Iowa) county line, using the present river course.
  • July 22, 1804
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  • Clark, William
July 22, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • this horizon consists of a glass plane with a single reflecting surface, cemented to the flat side of the larger segment of a wooden ball; adjusted by means of a sperit-level and a triangular stand with a triangular mortice cut through it's center sufficiently large to admit of the wooden ball partially; the stand rests on three screws inserted near it's angles, which serve as feet for it to rest on while they assist also in the adjustment.   
  • July 22, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 30, 1804 - Clark, William
  • In Washington County (Washington County, Nebr.) , Nebraska (Nebraska) , near the present town of Fort Calhoun (Fort Calhoun, Nebr.) , about fifteen miles north of Omaha (Omaha, Nebr.) .
  • July 30, 1804
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  • Clark, William
August 8, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • they lay usually two eggs only and chuise for a nest a couple of logs of drift wood near the water's edge and with out any other preperation but the thraught [throat] formed by the proximity of those two logs which form a trough    they set and hatch their young which after nurture with fish their common food Measure   F   I F[r]om beak to toe 5   8 Tip to tip of wing 9   4 Beak Length 1   3 Do.
  • August 8, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 17, 1804 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • this forrest of plumb trees garnish a plain about 20 feet more lelivated than that on which we were encamped; this plain extends back about a mile to the foot of the hills one mile distant and to which it is gradually ascending    this plane extends with the same bredth from the creek below to the distance of near three miles above parrallel with the river, and is intirely occupyed by the burrows of the barking squril hertefore discribed; this anamal appears here in infinite numbers, and the shortness and virdue [verdure] of grass gave the plain the appearance throughout it's whole extent of beatifull bowlinggreen in fine order.   
  • September 17, 1804
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
Weather March 1805 - Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
  • M. and came down in immense sheets very near distroying our perogues— some gees pass today.   27th the first insect I have seen was a large black knat today— the ice drifting in large quantities.—   28th it [river] raised 13 inch and fell 12.   
  • Weather March 1805
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  • Clark, William; Lewis, Meriwether
April 15, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I saw the remains of several camps of the Assinniboins (Assiniboine Indians) ; near one of which, in a small ravene, there was a park which they had formed of timber and brush, for the purpose of taking the Cabrie or Antelope.   
  • April 15, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 30, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the two men sent to the falls (Missouri River, Great Falls of the) returned with the compas which they found covered in the mud and sand near the mouth of the rivene    the other articles were irrecoverably lost.   
  • June 30, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 17, 1805 - Ordway, John
  • Lewis (Lewis, Meriwether) first came near them they appeared frightened untill he & them with him lay down their arms & made motions of friendship.   
  • August 17, 1805
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  • Ordway, John
September 10, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • The morning being fair I sent out all the hunters, and directed two of them to procede down the river as far as it's junction with the Eastern fork which heads near the missouri (Missouri River) , and return this evening.    this fork of the river we determined to name the Valley plain river (Clark Fork (Clark's, East Fork Clark's, Flathead) River) .
  • September 10, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
November 3, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Washougal River (Washougal (Seal) River) , meeting the Columbia (Columbia River) near present Washougal (Washougal, Wash.) ; "Seal R (Washougal (Seal) River) " on Atlas map 79.
  • November 3, 1805
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  • Clark, William
November 4, 1805 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • It was situated on a rising piece of ground, & lay along the River.    The bottom land near this place is cover'd with Cotton wood & pine timber, the Soil tolerably good, & the River had a pleasant appearance, being wide & the current of the tide running very gentle.—    These Indians had Cloths of different kinds among them, which they made signs to us that they had got from white people at the Ocean.   
  • November 4, 1805
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
February 16, 1806 - Clark, William
  • (See likeness on the other Side of this leaf) the tail is Composed of twelve feathers of equal length, each 14 inches. the legs are 4¾ inches in length and of a whiteish colour uncovered with feathers, they are not entirely Smooth but not imbricated; the toes are four in number three of which are foward and that in the center much the longest; the fourth is Short and is inserted near the inner of the three other toes and reather projecting foward.   
  • February 16, 1806
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  • Clark, William
February 17, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the legs are 4¾ inches in length and of a white colour un covered with feathers, they are not entirely smooth but not imbricated; the toes are four in number three of which are forward and that in the center much the longes; the fourth is short and is inserted near the inner of the three other toes and reather projecting forward.   
  • February 17, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 11, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Most of those have a division in the houses near the enterance which is at the end, or in the event of it's being a double house is from the center of a narrow passage.
  • April 11, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 10, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • In Skamania County (Skamania County, Wash.) , Washington (Washington) , in or near present North Bonneville (North Bonneville, Wash.) . Atlas map 79.
  • April 10, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
April 16, 1806 - Clark, William
  • The name taptat refers to a Yakima (Yakima Indians) village near Posser (Posser, Wash.) , Benton County (Benton County, Wash.) .
  • April 16, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 20, 1806 - Clark, William
  • This notation apparently refers to the map near the back of Voorhis No. 3 (fig. 11); the reference to "No. 5" is not explainable.
  • April 20, 1806
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  • Clark, William
April 23, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we continued our march along a narrow rocky bottom on the N. side of the river about 12 miles to the Wah-how-pum (Tenino Indians) Village of 12 temperary mat lodges near the Rock rapid.    these people appeared much pleased to see us, sold us 4 dogs and some wood for our small articles which we had previously prepared as our only resource to obtain fuel and food through those plains.   
  • April 23, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 20, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Clark Friday June 20th, 1806 The hunters turned out early in different directions, our guiggers also turned out with 2 guigs a Bayonet fixed on a pole, a Scooping nett and a Snar made of horse.    near the ford of the Creek in a deep hole we killed Six Salmon trout & 2 others were killed in the Creek above in the evening.
  • June 20, 1806
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  • Clark, William
July 23, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Children    The red children of your great father who live near him and have opened their ears to his counsels are rich and hapy have plenty of horses cows & Hogs fowls bread &c.
  • July 23, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 28, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Dak.)) ," a name confirmed by Gass (Gass, Patrick) and Ordway (Ordway, John) . It was near present Oacoma (Oacoma, S. Dak.) , in Lyman County (Lyman County, S.
  • August 28, 1806
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  • Clark, William
August 30, 1803 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Blaze Cenas (Cenas, Blaze) being unacquainted with the management of the gun suffered her to discharge herself accedentaly    the ball passed through the hat of a woman about 40 yards distanc cuting her temple about the fourth of the diameter of the ball; shee fell instantly and the blood gusing from her temple    we were all in the greatest consternation    supposed she was dead by [but] in a minute she revived to our enespressable satisfaction, and by examination we found the wound by no means mortal or even dangerous; called the hands aboard and proceeded to a ripple of McKee's rock (McKees Rocks) * where we were obleged to get out all hands and lift the boat over about thirty yards; the river is extreemly low; said to be more so than it has been known for four years; about [blank] we passed another ripple near [erasure]    Past another bear or ripple with more dificulty than either of the others    halted for the night much fatiegued after labouring with my men all day—    the water being sufficiently temperate was much in our favor; gave my men some whiskey and retired to rest at 8 OClock— *a discription of this place to [follow?]
  • August 30, 1803
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
October 1, 1804 - Clark, William
  • The villages are marked on Atlas map 23 and are probably among the sites on or near what is called Black Widow Ridge (Black Widow Ridge) , where there was almost a continuous series of late prehistoric and early historic Indian village sites.
  • October 1, 1804
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  • Clark, William
April 29, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • the testicles, which in the black bear are placed pretty well back between the thyes and contained in one pouch like those of the dog and most quadrupeds, are in the yellow or brown bear placed much further forward, and are suspended in seperate pouches from two to four inches asunder; it's colour is yellowish brown, the eyes small, black, and piercing; the front of the fore legs near the feet is usually black; the fur is finer thicker and deeper than that of the black bear.   
  • April 29, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
May 10, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • from the appearance of the Mule deer and the bighorned anamals we beleive ourselves fast approaching a hilly or mountainous country; we have rarely found the mule deer in any except a rough country; they prefer the open grounds and are seldom found in the woodlands near the river; when they are met with in the woodlands or river bottoms and are pursued, the[y] invariably run to the hills or open country as the Elk do.   
  • May 10, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
July 30, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • I would willingly have joined the canoes but the brush were so thick, the river crooked and bottoms intercepted in such manner by the beaver dams, that I found it uceless to attempt to find them, and therefore proceeded on up the river in order to intersept it where it came near the plain and woult be more collected into one channel.    at length about sunset I arrived at the river only about six miles from my calculation on a direct line from the place I had left the canoes but I thought they were still below me.
  • July 30, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 4, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Charbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) complains much of his leg, and is the cause of considerable detention to us.    we encamped on the river bank near the place at which it leaves the valley and enters the mountain having traveled about 23 miles.   
  • August 4, 1805
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
September 2, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Northwest of Gibbonsville (Gibbonsville, Idaho) , Lemhi County (Lemhi County, Idaho) , Idaho (Idaho) , near U.S. Highway 93 (U.S. Highway 93) , somewhat above the mouth of Hammerean Creek (Hammerean Creek) .
  • September 2, 1805
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  • Clark, William
April 2, 1806 - Whitehouse, Joseph
  • The Indian guide that was with us, told us that it heads Near the head Waters of the California (Pacific Ocean) , & that there is a large Nation of Indians who reside some distance up that River 〈& 〉 who live on a So. fork of this River & that Nation is called the Clark-a-mus (Clackamas (Clarkamos) Indians) Nation 〈& also another Nation〉 and that 30 Towns belong to them.   
  • April 2, 1806
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  • Whitehouse, Joseph
April 22, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we had not arrived at the top of a hill over which the road leads opposite the village before Charbono's (Charbonneau, Toussaint) horse threw his load, and taking fright at the saddle and robe which still adhered, ran at full speed down the hill, near the village he disengaged himself from the saddle and robe, an indian hid the robe in is lodge.
  • April 22, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 16, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • this morning Windsor (Windsor, Richard) busted his rifle near the muzzle.    before we reached this little branch on which we dined we saw in the hollows and N. hillsides large quatities of snow yet undisolved; in some places it was from two to three feet deep.   
  • June 16, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether
June 26, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • we cooked and made a haisty meal of boiled venison and mush of cows.    the snow has subsided near four feet since the 17th inst.    we now measured it accurately and found from a mark which we had made on a tree when we were last here on the 17th that it was then 10 feet 10 inches which appeared to be about the common debth though it is deeper still in some places.   
  • June 26, 1806
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  • Lewis, Meriwether

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