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Their words didn't grab the nation's attention immediately. The first edition of the journals didn't appear until eight years after the expedition ended, in 1814. Hundreds of books later, it's hard to imagine the absence of Lewis and Clark from the pageant of popular American history...
They spent roughly a thousand days and nights together, from the rainy October morning they left the falls of the Ohio until they finally pulled their canoes out of the Mississippi three years later in St. Louis. They slept in impossibly close quarters, often sharing the same buffalo-skin teepee...
Historians traditionally distinguish them by contrasting their personalities--the brooding Meriwether Lewis played off against the genial William Clark--Jeremy Irons hitting the road with John Goodman. Gary Moulton, editor of the explorers' journals, says, "The differences existed, but they may have been exaggerated." In reality, the two men had...
Older than Lewis by four years--they were 33 and 29 when the expedition began--Clark was the more experienced soldier and frontiersman. His five older brothers had fought in the American Revolution. One, General George Rogers Clark, had led raids that kept the lower Great Lakes region out of...
Nothing reveals the captains more than their treatment of Sacagawea. Lewis could be aloof, dismissing their interpreter's wife as "the Indian woman," observing that "if she has enough to eat and a few trinkets to wear I beleive she would be perfectly content anywhere." But the less formal Clark...