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The Expedition
At the beginning of the new year and lewis Starts the Expedition and finishes before 1810. -
Getting started
With the authorization, crew, and camp Meriwether Lewis starts the expedition with William Clark as his partner. -
A causality
The expedition suffers its first causality. Sargent Charles Floyd dies from what probably was a burst appendix. Lewis names a nearby hilltop "Floyd's Bluff". -
A friendly meeting with the Yankton Sioux tribe
After meeting the Yankton Sioux a baby is born and lewis wraps him in an American flag and calls him" An American". -
The Fort Mandan
After meeting the Mandans and Hindatsas and their vast 4,500 population, the captains decide to make fort mandan across from the main village. -
A cold night
Lewis records the temperature to be -40 degrees. After the long night was over they continued work on Fort Mandan. Two weeks later Fort Mandan was completed and they continued their expedition. -
A baby is born
On February 11, 1805 Sacagawea gives birth to a baby boy. Lewis makes a potion to help with the delivery. Sacagawea names the baby Jean Baptiste. -
Camp Fortunate
As Lewis discovered a Shoshone village, he tries to negotiate for horses, and remarkably sacagaweas' brother is the chief. After a bountyful discovery, Lewis and his men leave. As Lewis thanks the village and names it camp fortunate. -
A peaceful trade
After a decision a Nez Perce tribe befriends the explorers and gives them food, sometime in september. The explorers become sick from completely gorging their bodies with salmon and camas roots. They are shown under the guidence of chief "Twisted Hair" how to hollow out pine wood into canoes using fire. -
Starving into Idaho
The men stagger out of the Bitteroots of Missouri and into Wieppe, Idaho. The men had become so hungry that they butchered one of their horses for meat. As they pass a stream Clark names it " Hungry Creek" to state their situation. -
Fort Clatsop
The men celebrate Christmas in their new fort. Lewis hands out hankerchiefs. The last of the tobacco supply is used. -
Tobacco substitute
With the previously whiskey shortage, the men also start to run out of tobacco. With a need for tobacco, Patrick Gass reports the men using Crab Tree bark as an substitute. To the men this would have been a poor quality, bitter tasting tobacco but passable. -
Traveling home
The explorers come across their Nez Perce friends again on their way back. The tribe again gives them food. And with good intentions, they play a game of " base". -
A fight
The explorers find a camp of eight Blackfeet warriors which they camp with. On the morning of the 27th the Blackfeet are caught trying to steal horses and guns. In the skirmish two Blackfeet are killed and lewis leaves them with a peace medal so" they may be informed who we are". -
A settlement
The explorers come across a lone cow. In their joy they travel untill they find a town. Later that day they reach La Charette. -
York dies
Clark's servent York had acompanied in the expedition by the will of his master since it began. After they were home York dies before 1832. Clark released him at least ten years after the expedition where York dies, probably of cholera, in a freighting buisness.
