A party of 11 hands start to the Pacific Ocean. August 31, 1803 is when they left. They left from east side of the Mississippi across from the mouth of the Missouri river.
~Joaquin
Thomas Jefferson, then president of the United States, assigned Merriweather Lewis to to be leader of the expidetion. Lewis has choice of a partner and men. He chose as his partner William Clark. Lewis and Clark grew up together.
~Dexter
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