Word: clark
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...boys" were Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. And Brad Smith had been assigned by TIME to retrace their journey, photographing each landmark just as they first saw it, at the same time of year and the same time of day, from the same vantage point of mountain peak or river bed that they had described in their journals...
...result, as you will see from the special color section in this week's issue, is the most precise and probably the most complete pictorial color record of the Lewis and Clark trail ever published...
...most exciting travel drama in U.S. history began May 14, 1804. On that rainy Monday President Thomas Jefferson's private secretary. Captain Meriwether Lewis, 29, 1st Regiment of Infantry. U.S.A., and his friend, 2nd Lieut. William Clark, 33, of the Corps of Artillerists (he signed himself captain on Jefferson's authority), headed westward from St. Louis at the head of a 43-man "Corps of Discovery." Their objective was to explore the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase and find a route from the Missouri to the Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade...
...Corps of Discovery was composed of hardy Kentucky hunters and frontiersmen, French boatmen and soldiers in leather collars with their hair in pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered...
Harvard undergraduates may register with Nat Parker at his office at 60 Boylston St. and Radcliffe students may register with Miss Harriet Clark of the Radcliffe Physical Education Department. Harvard freshmen will receive PT credit for participation in the classes...