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Quest for Empire on the Northern Plains:
Jeffersonian Expansionism & the Corps of Discovery

Thomas Jefferson and Sakakawea

...we were now about to penetrate a country at least two thousand miles in width,
on which the foot of civilized man had never trodden...

Fort Mandan
April 07, 1805
Meriwether Lewis

Dr. Greg Camp, Lewis and Clark historian, answers the most frequently asked questions about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Corps of Discovery.

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