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The Staring Point
St. Louis, Missouri was the starting point for Meriwther Lewis and William Clark to discover the new land of the Louisianna purchase and beyond. Spear heading this expedition was the President of the Untied States,Thomas Jefferson. He wanted to know if there was a water route between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. -
A Causality
Sergeant Charles Flyod was the only man to die during this expedition. He was the first U.S. soldier to die west of the Mississippi River. It was thought that he probably died from a burst appendix. The hillside where he was buried was named Flyod's Bluff and the stream running next to it was called Flyod's River. -
The Buffalo
When the expedition reached South Dakota they saw many buffalo graising on the open plains. They hunted and ate their first buffalo, and it was yummy. -
Fort Mandan
Here Lewis and Clark met Toussaint Charbonneau a French-Canadian fur trapper who lived among the Native Americans along with his Shoshone wife Sacagawea. These two joined the expedition and severed as guides and interpreters. -
A Baby is Born
During the winter at Fort Mandan, Sacagawea gave birth to a baby boy and named him Jean Baptiste. Lewis aided the birth along by making medicine out of the rings of a rattlesnake rattle. -
The Grizzly Encounter
Lewis and one of his hunters encountered and killed a large grizzly bear. This animal had never been described for science before. -
The Great Falls
The expedition finds the Great Falls of Missouri. Here is where they run into extreme weather of broiling heat, hail storms and other obstacles like the prickly pear cactus. They thought they would travel around the falls in just half a day, but instead it took them a month. -
We Come in Peace
Lewis and his men came upon some women from the Shoshone tribe who were gathering food a little ways from their village. As Lewis came closer the women became frightened but when Lewis put down his gun and offered them small gifts and painted their faces with vermilion, a symbol of peace. Their fear soon left. Then a war party of 60 indian warriors where held off by the women who told them that the
strangers come in peace. Lewis comfirms this by giving the warriors more gifts. -
Camp Fortunate
The expedition finally finds the Shoshone Indian tribe. Lewis is successful in negotiating for horses with Chief Cameahwait, who turned out to be Sacagawea's brother. These horses significantly aided the expedition to countinue over the Rocky Mountians. -
Hungry Creek
Old Toby the Shoshone Indian guide loses his way in the Bitterroot Mountians. Here the expedition experiences starvation but manages to stay alive by killing one of their horses for meat. After several more days in the mountains they stumble out in present day Weippe Idaho. Here they find the Nez Perce Idian tribe. The Corp was saved from being killed by one of the women in the tribe. She had been saved by white men once before. The Nez Perce turned out to be one of the most hostpitable people. -
Ocean in View
The Corp of Discovery was getting closer to the Pacific Ocean. At one point Clark could see the ocean and said," Ocean in view! O! the joy." But the expedition was still 20 miles away from the sea. Due to extreme weather conditions the expedition was delayed another three weeks from reaching the sea. -
Fort Clatsop
Chief Coboway, from one of the Clatsop villages, was the only leader to make contact with the Corps of Discovery at Fort Clatsop. He came to trade goods like sea otter pelts for fish hooks, and a small bag of tobacca leaves. He became a frequent vistor and friend of the Fort. -
A Gift
As the expedition ends it stays at Fort Clatsop, the Core of Discovery leave Fort Clatsop and all of its furniture to Chief Coboway. This charitable gift was given because Coboway was such a generous and kind neighbor.
