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​​ Lewis and Clark by Ben

With great excitment,a group of men set off to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase,the unknown lands west of the Mississippi river.

President Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to led the expedition to explore the lands of the Louisiana Purchase,from the Mississippi rRver and beyond to the Pacific Ocean.

''left Pittsburgh this day at 11'o clock with a party of 11 hands,7 of which are soldiers,a pilot,and three young men on a trial they having proposed to go with me thoughout the voyage.''With those words written on August 31,1803.Meriwether lewis began his first journal entry on the epic Lewis and Clark expedition,

Lewis and Clark was the third recorded transcontinental crossing North America