By Cadet Cramer

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Lewis Clark

• By Cadet Cramer

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The Lewis and Clark expedition (18041806) was
the first United States overland expedition to
the Pacific coast and back, led by Captain
Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William
Clark, of the United States Army. It is also
known as the Corps of Discovery.
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• Along the way, the group made contact with Indian
  inhabitants of the land. During the first season
  of travel, they contacted the Missouris, the
  Omahas, the Yankton Sioux, the Teton Sioux
  (Lakota), and the Arikaras. The captains would
  offer gifts, meet with the chiefs, and make
  speeches encouraging the Indian nations to make
  peace with one another and with their new "great
  father," President Jefferson. All were friendly
  except the Lakota, with whom the expedition had a
  confrontation that nearly became violent.

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• Sacagawea was a member of the Shoshoni tribe who
  had been captured by Hidatsa Indians when she was
  about 12, and taken to the Hidatsa Villages many
  hundreds of miles from her home on the upper
  Missouri River.

• Sacagawea became a member of the Corps of
  Discovery because her husband, Toussaint
  Charbonneau, was asked to join as an interpreter.
  She was a young woman, only 16 years old in 1804,
  with a newborn infant, when the group set out for
  the unknown West. She helped the party by digging
  roots and other types of foods, showing the men
  how to make leather clothes and moccasins, and
  saving important papers from a capsized canoe.

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• Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana
  Territory, 820,000 square miles, for 15 million.
  After interest the final total came to be
  27,267,622. That still works out to be only
  about 3 an acre!

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