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In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France,

the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not

only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson

keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay

westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted

to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He

commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an

intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the

northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis,

accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide

Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the

Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the

principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim

to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the

captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and

fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the

awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near

present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In

keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the

literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The

Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was "the first

report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond

the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never

been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire

and created desire: the desire of the westering nation."

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In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national "Voyage of Discovery" must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was "the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation."