Lewis and Clark Expedition
Interesting facts about the lewis and clark expedition
Fort Clatsop
"The Grizzly story"
Pets on the lewis and clark expedition?
Lewis the Secretary for Thomas Jefferson?
Ice age in the 1800's?
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Guns
Spies and the West?
Before Lewis and Clark, there were other plans to explore the West. In 1793, Jefferson sent the experienced French botanist Andre Michaux on an exploring expedition. So why do we celebrate Lewis and Clark, but not Michaux? It turns out Michaux was actually a secret agent working for the French Republic. He was using the expedition as an excuse to recruit an army of American militia and attack Spanish settlements beyond the Mississippi River.
Eating mans best friend.
By the time they crossed the Bitterroot Mountains, extreme circumstances forced them to eat dog meat. Lewis learned to like it. Clark did not.
Take your Daily Mercury!
Speaking of diseases, one of the favorite methods for treating illness was the administration of tablets laced with mercury. Mercury—which is fatally poisonous at worst, but passes right through the body at best. Today scholars can even trace certain routes the expedition took because of mercury, deposits.