Today in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked from the American Midwest on their famous expedition to the Pacific coast of North America.
Over the duration of the trip, from May 14, 1804, to September 23, 1806, from St. Louis, Missouri, to the Pacific Ocean and back, the Corps of Discovery, as the expedition company was called, traveled near…
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