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Lewis and Clark learn of their journey
Thomas Jefferson, at this time, was president of the United States. He had just bought a lot of land from the French out west of the country. Now he wanted to discover what was out west of their states. He decided to send two men, Meriweather Lewis and William Clark, with a feew other men out west to go on an expedition and explore what was out there -
The Journey Begins
At this time, William Clark and a group of at least four dozen people he picked to come with him, traveled upstream the Missouri river to meet up with Merriweather Lewis and his group of people he picked to come. Lewis and his group had been there since May 14th. Once they met up, they were ready to start their jouney. -
Heading Into Danger
Native Americans from the Oto and Missouri tribes had an encountering withwith Lewis and Clark. It was a very peaceful greeting, they exchanged gifts with each other. This meeting went very well, but Lewis and Clark knew the next tribe they would most likely encounter would not be as friendly and peaceful. This tribe was the Sioux and would not end well. -
Standoff With The Teton Sioux
The Teton Sioux were known both among the French fur trappers and traders and their neighboring tribes as being aggressive, occasionally hostile, and determined to control traffic and trade through their territory. The expedition led by Lewis and Clark was the first official interaction between the nascent United States and the Lakota Nation, and as such, was fraught with tension and contained aggression on both sides. The meeting eventually ended in somewhat of a standoff, with both sides -
Winter Amoung The Maden
Lewis and Clark and their men built a fort and dig in for the winter. The men also kept busy buy hunting and repairing equipment. During this time, Lewis and Clark hired a French-Canadian fur trapper living among the Hidatsa (Charbonneau, his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, and their baby son, Jean Baptiste." -
Rockies In Sight
The expedition had almost lost two journals and everything in them thanks the wind in early May. They would have fallen overboard and have been gone for good if it wasn't for Sacajewea, one of the Native translaters on board, who reachedinto the water to retrieve as much as possible. Lewis and Clark and everyone elseon the expedition were very pleased to see Rockies, or mountains, in the distance. This is what they were sen to find, and nowthey found them. -
Among The Shoshone
A few months later, Lewis and Clark ran into the first Native they had seen in a long time. He belonged to the Shoshone tribe. These men were in luck because the chief of this trible happened to be Sacajewea's brother. They bargained with the chief to get new supplies for the rest of thier jouney. Before then new it, they were back out on the road traveling even further. -
"Ocian In View!"
They finally made it! Lewis and Clark had made it to the Pacific Ocean, their main reason for going on this expedtion in the first place. Even after their false alarm, these men were still so pleased that they had found it once and for all. Now that they had seen the Pacific Ocean, they were all so happy to be going home, but they decided to stay out in the west for winter time instead of rushing home. -
Among The Nez Perce
By this time in the expedition, the men were just about all out of food. They arrived back in New Perce territory when it snowed. They decided to play it safe and wait for weather conditions to get better before continuing. The men had a diet of deer, elk, horse and dog while stranded in New Perce. Lewis made himself busy by focusing on nature and studying the things around him, while Clark aided the injured and sick in their group until weather was better for them tocontinue. -
Homeward bound
As Lewis, Clark, and the other men on the expedition came home, they were thought to have been dead, considering they all had been gone for two years.When it was discovered that they were not dead but very much alive, they were then treated as heros for finding what was needed to be found.
