Corps of Discovery Exploration
By Taylor Gates Hour 3
Maps
Seaman
There was also a dog brought with, and his name was Seaman. His owner was Meriwether Lewis and Seaman was a newfoundland breed. Lewis chose him because this breed was smart and strong and had good swimming ability. On one of the days on the expedition, Lewis wrote about how the dog was skilled at catching and killing small animals, which was important because sometimes their other food sources weren't reliable.
Clark
William Clark was the one who made the maps, but outside of the mapmaking subject he was not intelligent. Maps and cartography was all he was surrounded by in his early life, as his brother was his teacher, a land surveyor, and mapped on the Virginia frontier. Even though cartography was his focused subject, he received extra training so maps were accurate and they wouldn't get lost.
Lewis
While Clark made maps, Meriwether Lewis was more of a celestial observer. He too had special training with some of America's leading scientists, mathematicians and surveyors, and even learned how to determine latitudes by observing altitudes of the sun or stars with an octant. Lewis also learned other formulas that would be helpful to know more about the land they were exploring.
Sacagawea
Sacagawea was very important on the exploration. She was the one who accepted Lewis and Clark's trade requests, and made her tribe become friendly and make peace with each other. Sacagawea also saved important papers off of one of the boats that was sinking, and without those papers a lot of knowledge about new species and land would be lost. She also carried around a newborn baby boy on the entire trip, named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, which caused more problems and trouble trying to keep the baby healthy as well as the rest as the explorers.