Lewis, Meriwether

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In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson sent Army Officers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and beyond and to look for a waterway that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This passage describes the collision of cultures that occurred between Native Americans and the representatives of the United States government. 

A journal is a book in which you write your secret thoughts, record all your fun adventures, and draw pictures of things you see. A journal can also be used to record, or set down in writing, things you ve learned or discovered. John James Audubon used a journal to record notes and draw pictures of the birds of North America. Wilderness explorers Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) used journals to record what they saw on their journeys out west in 1804-1806. Many things we ve learned about history and our natural world come from historical journals. Maybe someday the Nature Journal you make will become an important piece of natural history ... 

How do we explain the collection of botanical specimens, animal skins, rock samples, and Native American artifacts by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their famous expedition along the Columbia and Missouri rivers ... 

For a riveting account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, see Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (New York,... 

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