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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...
For the previous two years, Lewis had been working in the White House as Jefferson's private secretary. Like Jefferson, Lewis had lost his father at an early age; now he was in daily contact with the President, who was practically a surrogate father to him. Lewis told Clark that...
Jefferson had once discussed a similar mission with George Rogers Clark. But now, leaving George in his family's care, William accepted "chearfully," and "with much pleasure"--just in time to prevent Lewis from signing up his backup choice, an Army lieutenant named Moses Hooke.