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Rob Baker
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5/26/1805: Lewis first sees the Rocky Mountains:
'When I reflected on the difficulties which the snowy barrier would probably throw in my way to the Pacific... it in some measure counterbalanced by the joy I felt in the first moments I gazed upon them.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently' (227).
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'When I reflected on the difficulties which the snowy barrier would probably throw in my way to the Pacific... it in some measure counterbalanced by the joy I felt in the first moments I gazed upon them.
As I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently' (227).
Rob Baker
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On Nov. 4, 1804, at Fort Mandan (North Dakota), Lewis and Clark met a French-Canadian trader, Toussaint Charbonneau. He was hired by the Corps as a translator.
He had two wives. One was 15 and pregnant. She had been kidnapped by a Native American tribe and taken from her home near the Rocky Mountains, and made a slave, then lost in a card game to Charbonneau.
Her name was Sacagawea.
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He had two wives. One was 15 and pregnant. She had been kidnapped by a Native American tribe and taken from her home near the Rocky Mountains, and made a slave, then lost in a card game to Charbonneau.
Her name was Sacagawea.
Rob Baker
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On Aug. 20, 1804, the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die on the journey succombed to appendicitis.
They held a ceremony for him and buried him at a site they named Sergeant Floyds Bluff in modern Sioux City, IA.
They also visited his gravesite nearly two years later on the return trip.
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They held a ceremony for him and buried him at a site they named Sergeant Floyds Bluff in modern Sioux City, IA.
They also visited his gravesite nearly two years later on the return trip.
