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The Expedition begins.
Lewis and Clark begin the Journey from east to west of the North America. Importance: all Journeys need a start -
Negotions Begin
August 3, 1804 Corps of Discovery meet with representatives of the Oto and Missouri Indians, give peace medals, 15 star flags and other gifts.
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Indian hired as Interpreter
Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian fur trapper living with theHidatsas, is hired as an interpreter. HIs wife, Sacagawea, a Shosone who had been captured by the HIdatsas and sold to Charbonneau, is also considered elpful as the Shosones are said to live at the headwaters of the Missouri.
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Lewis and Clark find Indian artifacts
Lewis andClark send the keelboat and approx. a dozen men back downriver with maps, reports, Indians artifact ad other scientific specimens for Jefferson. The remaining pary heads west.
Importance: Sending new things back open the new world to the western map of America -
The Discovery of the Great falls of Missouri
Scouting ahead of the rest of the expedition, Lewis comes across the Great Falls of the Missouri. He also discovers four more waterfalls farther upstream. The expeditions will have to portage over eighteen miles. taking nearly a month, to get past them.
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The Shipment arrives
The shipment sent from fort Mandan arrives in the East and is delivered to Jefferson. Lewis asceds the final ridge toward the Continental Divide expecting to see plains and a river flowing to the pacific but he finds even more mountians.
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Lewis discovers the Shosones
Lewis discovers a village of Shoshones and tries to negotiate for horses. Clark and the rest of the expedition arrives as well, and it is discovered that the Shosone chief Cameahwait is Sacagawea's brother. Lews and CLark name the site Camp Fortunate.
Importance: they probably wouldn't have been able to negotate without Sacagawea -
Lewis and Clark reach the Columbia River
The expedition reaches the Columbia River.
Importance: making good progress -
Negotions Continue
President Jefferson welcomes a delegation of Missouri, Oto, Arikara, and Yankton Sioux chiefs who had met with Lewis and Clark more than a year earlier.
Importance:Negotions Continue -
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Lewis and Clark reach the BItterroot mountains.
The expedition reaches the Bitterroot MOuntains, but must wait for the sonw to melf before crossing them. During this time the expedition again stays with the Nez Perce, Lewis describes them as "the most hospitable, honest and sincere people that we have met with in our voyage."
Importance: the Exploration porbably would have ended if not for the Indians. -
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The Journey has come to an end
Lewis and Clark are treated as national heroes. They return to Washington, D.C. The men receive double pay and 320 acres of land as reward the captains get 1600 acres. Lewis is named governor of the Louisana Territory, Clark is made indian agent for theWest and brigadier general of the territory's Militia.
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The Journey is Coming to an End
With the current of the Missouri behind them, they are able to cover over 70 miles per day. The expedition also begins metting boats of American traders heading upriver.
Importance: they were able to return much quicker than they left
