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The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was a US military expedition of exploration, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired western lands that comprised the Louisiana Purchase and to reach the Pacific Ocean. #History #LouisianaPurchase #CorpsOfDiscovery #MeriwetherLewis #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition/
Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was a US military expedition of exploration, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired western lands that comprised...

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As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils, I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently.
-- Meriwether Lewis (upon viewing the Rocky Mountains for the first time (May 26, 1805))

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Pics from our time at the Natchez Trace Parkway (Meriwether Lewis Campground) in TN a couple days ago. Beautiful area with the fall leaves and the stay was free (dry camping) but the bees were EVERYWHERE. Not a fan so we cut our visit short after only a couple of nights.

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From his journal, as he wrote it:

“The quamash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.”
– Meriwether Lewis, June 12, 1806 (Lewis & Clark Expedition).

https://lewis-clark.org/sciences/plants/camas/

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Camas - Discover Lewis & Clark

The Nez Perce gave Clark and his six hunters "roots in different States, Some round and much like an onion which they call quamash."

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