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Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Even before buying Louisiana, Jefferson sponsored the mission of exploring the Pacific to strengthen the US 's claim to the West. Jefferson chose his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis to become the captain of the company due to his scientific interests and experience of the wilderness. Lewis picked close friend William Clarke in close relationship with Clark's nature experience and the Indians. Jefferson traced the Missouri River to two men and their crew and asked to fill the gap of knowledge that existed in the west.

The story of Sakagabia: Della Rowland's Lewis and Clark Guide This non-romantic biography provides ethnographic information such as the farmer's and hunter's lifestyle, the historical background of Lewis and Clark exploration. It contains black and white drawings and maps showing adventure routes. (1989, page 91, Bantam Doubleday Dell Young Leader Books, 3rd to 6th graders) This land is George Little Child's mother tongue, George Lit, a painting, Native American artist. Ercheler took back the young reader for the first time between his plain Cree ancestor and the first European settlers in North America. Through an autobiographical story with multimedia works, he describes the history of his people and their relationship with their land. (1993, 30 pages, Children's book publisher, 2nd to 6th graders)

Sacagawea: The Indian translation of Marion Marsh Brown's Lewis and Clark is written about the story of a Shoshoni Indian young woman. They served as guides and translators for the adventures of Lewis and Clark. These records are accurate without legends and romance, as the author uses the journals stored by Lewis and Clark and other members of the expedition as source material. Illustrations and maps are all original. (1988, 119 pages, scholarly library publication, 6th to 9th graders) Sacagawea: author of Alward J. White, writer of Westward and Lewis and Clark (Biography of Indigenous People), that this is the "real story" of Sacagawea I insist on paying attention to the facts about her life and to her travels from 1805 to 1806 to the Pacific coast of Lewis and Clark. Black and white photographs, historical paintings, maps are included. (1997, page 128, Enslo Press, pages 4-8)

Oregon exploration has not historically significant significance as far as exploration trips led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Historians and geographers took more than 30 inhabitants to the Columbia River from 1805 to 1806 and judged Louis and Clark's expedition that became the most successful North American land adventure in American history Did. The exploration, formally known as the "Northwest exploration volunteer group", was under the auspices of the US Army Ministry and was approved by the president and parliament.