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Beginning of the Journey
Lewis and Clark began their expedition and began making their way up the Missouri Platte River. -
Exchanging Gifts
Oto and Missouri Indians meander through woods and the Western plains to reach the expedition camp. -
Loss of Life
Sergeant Chalres Floyd is officially the first soldier to die west of the Mississippi River. -
A Grizzly Encounter
Lewis and a band of his men had spotted a group of grizzly bears, and decided to pursue them. They wounded one, yet it managed rto escape. Another ran at Lewis and almost attacked him until one of Lewis' men were able to load their gun and shoot the bear. -
A Quick Save
The expedition almost lost one of its two pirogues after a gust of wind blew the sails and cuased to lean the vessel precariously to the side. Sacajawea, in one quick motion, saved the valued journal and other supplies that would have otherwise been lost.She reached into the river and retrieved as much as she could. -
A Fork in the Road
The expedition had come to a fork in the river, of which the branches forming the fork were though to be equal size. The southern branch was believed to lead to the Missuori and therefore the Rockies which they wanted to cross before autmnal snow stroms. The rest of the crew had opposed this though and thought the northern branch was the right choice. -
The Great Falls
Lewis became the first whiite man to have witnessed the Great Falls of the Missouri River. Contrary to his beliefs, there were fiver separate falls, not one as the Indians had told him. Traveling around the falls wasa going to take much longer than planned. -
A Great Hardship
By this time Lewis was reunited with Clark. Six days after this the journey began again, and easily became he hardest physical task of the trip so far. More than a month would go by before the expedition could progress further around the Great FAals and enter the next bit of navigable waters. Beyond these waters were the Rockies. -
Indian Sightings
Lewis first spoted an Indian man on horseback, it was a Shoshone at last. Ii was a sight for sore eyes since it was the first Indian they saw since Fort Mandan.