Lewis and clark corps of discovery members

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Meriwether Lewis met two Shoshoni Indian women in this same area. A lot of the trip would have to be over land. At that point, Lewis could tell from the huge mountains he saw ahead that they would find no waterway across the continent. Meriwether Lewis became the first American to cross this continental line. Rain that falls to the east of the line forms rivers that flow to the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. Rain falling to the west of the imaginary line becomes rivers that flow to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis correctly guessed he had reached the line that divides the North American continent. All rivers before had flowed east or southeast. On July twenty-fifth, eighteen-oh five, Meriwether Lewis and two other men saw a small river that was flowing to the west. Later they buried the wheels with more food and things they had collected. To make the trip easier, they made wooden wheels for their boats. They carried the boats almost thirty kilometers. Here, the Corps of Discovery pulled the boats from the water and took them over land to the river. This area is near the modern city of Great Falls, Montana.

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The explorers soon reached an area where a series of waterfalls blocked passage on the river.

They would collect everything on their return trip. They would do this again and again on their way west. They did this by digging a deep hole and burying everything to protect it from animals. They also decided to leave extra food behind. They were having problems carrying everything they were gathering. Lewis and Clark soon decided to leave behind important information, plants and things collected from Indians. Lewis saw thousands of animals all feeding together. Lewis wrote of seeing thousands of animals: American bison, deer, huge elk and very fast antelope. The Corps of Discovery again moved up the Missouri River as soon as the warm weather of spring began to return. Animal heads and weapons made by the Mandan Indian tribe Today, visitors to President Jefferson's home in the southeastern state of Virginia can see many things collected by Lewis and Clark. For example, Lewis used more than one thousand words to tell about one bird. These reports provided much detail about the land and what was on it. They also took Lewis and Clark's first maps, animals, plants and reports to President Jefferson. The soldiers took the larger of the three boats the group had used to follow the Missouri River. The smaller group of soldiers that had aided them during their trip to Fort Mandan prepared to return south to Saint Louis. In early April, the Corps of Discovery prepared to travel west. He was the youngest member of the Corps of Discovery. The baby, too, would make the long trip to the Pacific Ocean. Sacagawea gave birth to her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, on FebruaryД®leventh, eighteen-oh-five. They knew that Sacagawea's presence with them would show Indians that the Corps of Discovery did not want to fight. Lewis and Clark knew that no Indian war group ever traveled with women. She had been captured as a young girl by another Indian tribe. She came from the Shoshoni tribe that lived near the Rocky Mountains in the far West. The first was that Charbonneau spoke several Indian languages. Lewis and Clark agreed to let them join their group for two reasons. He also asked if his Indian wife could come too. Mandan was the name of an Indian tribe that lived nearby.ДЄt Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark met French Canadian hunter Toussaint Charbonneau. They named their winter home Fort Mandan. Lewis and Clark had traveled about two thousand four hundred twenty kilometers when they were stopped by the cold winter weather. It was one hundred sixty-four days into the trip. Their trip began on May fourteenth, eighteen-oh-four. Clark accepted and the two men agreed to act as equal leaders of the group they named the Corps of Discovery. Lewis asked his friend William Clark to join the group. The explorers were to report about the land, people, animals and plants they found. The president said Lewis and a group of men should travel northwest up the Missouri River as far as possible and then continue west to the Pacific Ocean. Last week we told how President Thomas Jefferson suggested the trip to his private secretary Meriwether Lewis. Their exploration in the early eighteen hundreds led to the opening of the American West. Today we continue our story of Lewis and Clark. And this is Shirley Griffith, with the VOA Special English program, Explorations.

Lewis and clark corps of discovery members