Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: the Great Adventure to the Wild West

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In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began an expedition to map out the American West and find the Northwest Passage. Accompanied by a crew of men calling themselves the Corps of Discovery, and a Shoshone Native American guide and interpreter named Sacagawea, along with her infant son, Lewis and Clark traveled by land and river from St. Louis, Missouri to the Pacific coast of Oregon and back again.

Lewis was personally hired by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the western territory of the United States. Enlisting his childhood friend, William Clark, as co-leader, the Corps of Discovery left St. Louis, Missouri on May 14, 1804 and journeyed west on the Missouri River. They met Sacagawea in North Dakota and she traveled to the Pacific Ocean and back to North Dakota with the expedition.