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Lewis and Clark: The Corp of Discovery
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Probably a lesser known fact today than in the past but the United States did not start out stretching from sea to shining sea. In 1800 the U.S. only extended from the East Coast to the Mississippi River. That all changed with the Louisiana Purchase, when the barely legal U.S. bought a chunk of land from good ol Napoleon doubling the size of out country over night. Well here's the rub, we didn't really know what we bought. We didn't know how to reach the Pacific Ocean. So in 1804 a ragtag group of men called the Corp of Discovery lead by two men with steel in their sacks named Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, were ordered by Thomas Jefferson to find him a Northwest Passage to open up this new land. What transpired can only be described as incredible and at times almost unbelievable over the course of the next 8,000 miles. A true venture into the unknown.
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Manage episode 371112777 series 3340882
Probably a lesser known fact today than in the past but the United States did not start out stretching from sea to shining sea. In 1800 the U.S. only extended from the East Coast to the Mississippi River. That all changed with the Louisiana Purchase, when the barely legal U.S. bought a chunk of land from good ol Napoleon doubling the size of out country over night. Well here's the rub, we didn't really know what we bought. We didn't know how to reach the Pacific Ocean. So in 1804 a ragtag group of men called the Corp of Discovery lead by two men with steel in their sacks named Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, were ordered by Thomas Jefferson to find him a Northwest Passage to open up this new land. What transpired can only be described as incredible and at times almost unbelievable over the course of the next 8,000 miles. A true venture into the unknown.
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