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Friday, December 15, 2023 7:04:14 PM
More pedantry. The link to the interactive map is to the end of the trip; arrow back to begin it. As you were, the link lands you at the beginning. Notice how far north they went before they headed more due west.
Somewhere in the southern part of South Dakota a member of the expedition asked where they were going to winter. Fort Mandan North Dakota, Lewis or Clark replies. We better hurry, starting to get a bit chilly, the member says.
They arrive winter of 04-05. TF?! the same member exclaims, wasn't there a trail across a lower WARMER latitude of this f'ing purchase that we could have hiked?
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Interactive Map
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/online-exhibitions/lewis-and-clark-expedition-interactive-map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.
Clark and 30 members set out from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood), Illinois, on May 14, 1804, met Lewis and ten other members of the group in St. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the Americas near the Lemhi Pass, eventually coming to the Columbia River, and the Pacific Ocean in 1805. The return voyage began on March 23, 1806, at Fort Clatsop, Oregon, and ended on September 23 of the same year.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before European powers attempted to establish claims in the region.
The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with local Native American tribes. The expedition returned to St. Louis to report its findings to Jefferson, with maps, sketches, and journals in hand.[1][2]
Somewhere in the southern part of South Dakota a member of the expedition asked where they were going to winter. Fort Mandan North Dakota, Lewis or Clark replies. We better hurry, starting to get a bit chilly, the member says.
They arrive winter of 04-05. TF?! the same member exclaims, wasn't there a trail across a lower WARMER latitude of this f'ing purchase that we could have hiked?
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Interactive Map
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/online-exhibitions/lewis-and-clark-expedition-interactive-map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.
Clark and 30 members set out from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood), Illinois, on May 14, 1804, met Lewis and ten other members of the group in St. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the Americas near the Lemhi Pass, eventually coming to the Columbia River, and the Pacific Ocean in 1805. The return voyage began on March 23, 1806, at Fort Clatsop, Oregon, and ended on September 23 of the same year.
President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an American presence in this territory before European powers attempted to establish claims in the region.
The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life, and geography, and to establish trade with local Native American tribes. The expedition returned to St. Louis to report its findings to Jefferson, with maps, sketches, and journals in hand.[1][2]
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