(每小题2分,共30分)A(2020原创)In May 1804,Lewis and Clark led the Corps of Discovery to begin the journeyon the Missouri River.Lewis'main job was to lead the men on the ship.Andanyway,he needed to make maps of the geography of the unknown land.As forClark,he usually studied plants...
1 Page Open Document Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the other members of the Corps of Discovery traveled 3,700 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in non-motorized boats, on horseback, and on foot. Not only did they have no cars or airplanes to travel in, they al...
The expedition, led by two remarkable and utterly different commanders -- the brilliant but troubled Meriwether Lewis and his trustworthy, gregarious friend William Clark -- was to be the United States' first exploration into unknown spaces. The unlikely crew came from every corner of the young ...
Lewis visited the arsenal atHarper’s Ferryto obtain munitions. He then rode a custom-made, 55-foot keelboat—also called “the boat” or “the barge”—down the Ohio River and joined Clark in Clarksville,Indiana. From there, Clark took the boat up the Mississippi River while Lewis continue...
In the spring they started back across the continent. In July, 1806, the party split for a time in order to explore as much territory as possible. Lewis went with a group down the Marias River, while Clark and most of the men descended the Yellowstone River; they were reunited on the ...
On this day with Lewis & Clark January 7, 1804 Boat trouble At Wood River, ice flowing down the Missouri and Mississippi rivers continues to make it difficult to keep the barge upright. Clark works on a map with information gathered from traders. ...
May 14, 1804: One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Even before the U.S. government concluded purcha...
How Lewis and Clark—along with a Native American guide, Sacagawea—explored the newly expanded United States