Lewis And Clark Expedition
By Taylor
Tribes
Seaman the Dog
The Missouri River
Sacagawea
A teenager named Sacagawea served as an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the western United States. She was a Lemhi Shoshone Indian. She traveled thousands of miles through the wilderness with the explorers, from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean and back again. On Feb. 11, 1805, she gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste. Sacagawea took her infant along on the expedition, which set off on April 7 on the Missouri River.
Fort Mandan
Hardships
Lengthy Trip
Expedition took 863 days, 7,689 miles the distance traveled by the expedition, through unmapped, unsettled wilderness.
Cost
Costs of expedition: initial approved by congress $2,500. Grew to $38,722.25, 15x original amount. When you add in price of land each member received upon return as a reward, the total tops $136,000. In today’s dollars that is $126,000,000. It cost $25 billion to put a man on the moon.
On The Way Back
Tragic End
Cites
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“Seaman, A Newfoundland Dog Who Accompanied Lewis and Clark.” America Comes Alive. Kate Kelly, n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2016. <http://americacomesalive.com/2013/08/27/seaman-a-newfoundland-dog-who-accompanied-lewis-and-clark/#.VsMjZDYrLos>.