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What were Jefferson’s reasons for wanting to explore the West? How and why did the United States obtain the Louisiana Purchase? Were there other American attempts–before and after–to explore the west? How active was the fur trade in North Dakota before Lewis and Clark? |
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| "The object of your mission is to explore the
Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it's course
& communication with the water of the Pacific ocean may offer the
most direct & practicable water communication across this continent,
for the purposes of commerce."
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