In 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were sent by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the largely uncharted western territory of North America, and thus became critical figures in America's expansion and major contributors to its scientific scholarship. They observed and documented scores of a...
“So it was, and I feelt myself not a little gratifyed that he had declined the combat,” wrote Lewis. Despite the great care taken by Lewis and Clark to collect specimens and include detailed descriptions and measurements of plants and animals in their journals, the men never achieved ...
Lewis and Clark went on an expedition up the Missouri River to study grizzly bears both white and brown bears for which they had heard about from the Mandanand Hidatsu Indians. The Indians gave a very formidable...
1-3. The history is handled with a light touch in this Step into Reading title about the American West, and Manders' colorful cartoon-style art is a perfect match for the storytelling. President Jefferson asks Lewis and Clark to go west, and "make maps, and explore rivers . . . ...
One of the animals sent to President Jefferson in 1805 was a "barking squirrel," or “black-tailed prairie dog.” Lewis and Clark were hailed as heroes in America In March 1806, the expedition began its journey back East. It was during this final leg of the expedition that the one ...
(B)In May 1804, Lewis and Clark led the Corps of Discovery to begin the journey on theMissouri River. Lewis'main job was to lead the men on the ship. And anyway, he neededto make maps of the geography of the unknown land. As for Clark, he usually studiedplants and animals along ...
and purchased Indian dogs. On September 23, 1806 when they came back, they came back with new knowledge that was about the newUnited Statesterritory west of the Mississippi, the people, the land, the rivers, the mountains, and the plants and animals. Meriwether Lewis and Lewis Clark will ...
Lewis and Clark's expedition officially began on May 14, 1804, when they and the 33 other men making up the Corps of Discovery departed from their camp near St. Louis, Missouri. The first portion of the expedition followed the route of the Missouri River during which, they passed through ...
There were many interesting things that Lewis and Clark discovered in the Louisiana Territory. Among these are more than one hundred animals and plants, the Great Falls, and Cape Disappointment. Stating that they discovered these items is somewhat of a misstatement because French and British explorer...