Wednesday, May 14, 2008

May 14

At 4 p.m. on the 14th in 1804, in a steady, cold rain a party led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Camp Dubois, near present day Hartford, Illinois and headed west. President Jefferson had selected them to head the Corps of Discovery. Their task was to map and explore the vast new lands that the nation had acquired from France in the recent Louisiana Purchase.

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