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Quest for Empire on the Northern Plains:
Jeffersonian Expansionism & the Corps of Discovery

Thomas Jefferson and Sakakawea

...we were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width, on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden...


Fort Mandan
April 07, 1805
Meriwether Lewis

 

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Dr. Greg Camp, Lewis and Clark historian, answers the most frequently asked questions about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Corps of Discovery.
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A Vast and Open Plain: The Writings of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in North Dakota, 1804 - 1806

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Now available at the Museum Store!

 

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