Lewis and Clark

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• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson
won approval from Congress for a visionary
project, an endeavor that would become one of
Americas greatest stories of adventure.
Twenty-five hundred dollars were appropriated
to fund a small expeditionary group, whose
mission was to explore the uncharted West.
Jefferson called the group the Corps of
Discovery. It would be led by Jeffersons
secretary, Meriwether Lewis, and Lewis friend,
William Clark. Over the next four years, the
Corps of Discovery would travel thousands of
miles, experiencing lands, rivers and peoples
that no Americans ever had before.
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Lewis and Clarks Journey
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What did they take with them?

• Mathematical Instruments
• surveyors compass
• hand compass
• quadrants
• telescope
• thermometers
• 2 sextants
• set of plotting instruments
• chronometer (needed to calculate longitude)

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Camp Supplies

• 150 yards of cloth to be oiled and sewn into
  tents and sheets
• pliers
• chisels
• 30 steels for striking to make fire
• handsaws
• hatchets
• whetstones
• iron corn mill
• two dozen tablespoons
• mosquito curtains
• 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines
• 12 pounds of soap
• 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste
  concocted by boiling down beef, eggs and
  vegetables)
• three bushels of salt
• writing paper, ink and crayons

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Presents for Indians

• 12 dozen pocket mirrors
• 4,600 sewing needles
• 144 small scissors
• 10 pounds of sewing thread
• silk ribbons
• ivory combs
• handkerchiefs
• yards of bright-colored cloth
• 130 rolls of tobacco
• tomahawks that doubled as pipes
• 288 knives
• 8 brass kettles
• vermilion face paint
• 33 pounds of tiny beads of assorted colors

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Clothing

• 45 flannel shirts
• coats
• frocks
• shoes
• woolen pants
• blankets
• knapsacks
• stockings

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Arms and Ammunition

• 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54
  caliber rifles
• knives
• 500 rifle flints
• 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets
• 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead
  canisters
• 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with
  compressed air, rather than by flint, spark and
  powder

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Medicine and Medical Supplies

• 50 dozen Dr. Rushs patented "Rushs pills"
• lancets
• forceps
• syringes
• tourniquets
• 1,300 doses of physic
• 1,100 hundred doses of emetic
• 3,500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer)
• other drugs for blistering, salivation and
  increased kidney output

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Traveling Library

• Bartons Elements of Botany
• Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratzs History of
  Louisiana
• Richard Kirwans Elements of Mineralogy
• A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical
  Astronomy
• The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris
• a four-volume dictionary
• a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of
  the Latin classification of plants)
• tables for finding longitude and latitude
• map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River

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Who do they meet?

• The Mandan Indians
• The Shoshone Tribe
• The Nez Perce

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Fort Mandan

• Lewis and Clark reached the Mandan Tribe in
  October of 1804. Planning to stay the winter
  they built a log structure and named it Fort
  Mandan.

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Tour Guides

• Toussaint Charbonneau

• Sacajawea

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Moving On

• In April of 1805, as the ice was breaking up on
  the rivers, the expedition left Fort Mandan. The
  Corps traveled until they reached the great falls
  of the Missouri River. Here they were happily
  greeted by the Shoshone Tribe led by Sacajaweas
  brother.

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• Using horses given to them by the Shoshone Tribe,
  the group continues on to the Rocky Mountains.
  Lewis and Clark meet the Nez Perce, who promise
  to keep their horses over the winter. They then
  begin their decent of the western slope of the
  mountains.

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• Once down the Rockies, the group was forced to
  make new boat and followed the Columbia River to
  the Pacific Ocean. They spend the winter of
  1805-1806 near the shore at Fort Clatsop, which
  they had built.

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Fort Clatsop

• On the return journey, the group spilt up to make
  sure they had not missed an important waterway.
  They arrived back in St. Louis on September 23,
  1806. Many had believed that the explorers were
  lost.

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