Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: Volume 2: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration) by Meriwether Lewis

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: Volume 2: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806 (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration)

Meriwether Lewis
Cambridge University Press
Sep 2011
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The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 1806 across America from Pittsburg to the Pacific and back was the third recorded transcontinental journey. President Jefferson had negotiated the Louisiana Purchase of over two million square kilometres from the French in 1803, and the aim of the expedition was to investigate the territory involved. He commissioned a Corps of Discovery as a scientific and military expedition to survey the acquisition, appointing his aide Meriwether Lewis (1774 1809) to lead it. It was hoped to discover that the Missouri and other rivers could be used for transcontinental communication and transport, and to assess the natural resources of the area. Some of the party returned east with specimens, reports and a map, while the remainder reached the Pacific in December 1805. Volume 2 covers the journey from Three Forks, Montana, the source of the Missouri, to the Pacific, and their winter quarters."
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