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The Journey Begins
Thet have been preparing for this expedition for months. Ready for war with the natives, hoping to make peace with them, but had weapons if not. -
Heading Into Danger
The first meeting with the Native Americans went well, but can they make peace with the more powerful Siuox? They were a peaceful people. -
The First Battle
They first greeted them with great gifts, but the had a secret hostility towards them. They demanded their boat as a price of passage, they were hoping to be friendly with them, but that failed. -
Racing Against Time
They tried to cover as many miles as they can before Missori froze.
They made a base to protect them from the freezing wintera and the native americans. -
Into Grizzly Country
The natives warned them about the bears, but natives with only bows and arrows would be no match for man with a rifle. They soon ran into a pack of grizzly bears, they shot at them and only one of them was wounded, but got away. The other bear even started chasing Lewis and chased him 80 yards before they killed it. Just then it was reconized that Bears are a threat. -
Rockies in Sight
By now Sacagawea was on the ship, and Lewis and Clark were growing anxious to see the Rockies, the mountain barrier they knew they'd have to pass. When they seen it for the first time they seen and they finally realized that the challange that layed ahead. But progress was slow among the shallow bending river -
Around the Great Falls
On June 13 Lewis became the first white man to see the Great Falls of the Missouri River. More than a month would pass before the expedition was around the Great Falls and onto the next stretch of navigable water. Beyond rose the Rocky Mountains. -
Toward the Continental Divide
The closer the captains came to the mountains, the more formidable the snow-covered peaks became. Once across the Continental Divide, they could ride the westward-flowing Columbia River. To the captains concern, they had not encountered any of the tribe.
