 | William A. McKenzie - 2004 - 178 pages
...communication. Jefferson saw to that when on May 14, 1804, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set forth "to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the...follow the best water communication which offered thence to the Pacific Ocean." When Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis on September 23,1806, the... | |
 | Jennifer Viegas - History - 2005 - 68 pages
...twenty-eight months. Clark to explore and map the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. The expedition was "to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the...offered itself from thence to the Pacific Ocean," as Jefferson outlined it in a confidential message to Congress. Accompanied by Native American guides,... | |
 | Elliot Coues - History - 2007 - 493 pages
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the Highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1905 - 456 pages
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the Highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition,... | |
 | 1816 - 670 pages
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1814 - 650 pages
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the Highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition,... | |
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In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands and follow the best water communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. 
