Beyond the Mississippi -- Setting out -- Voices from the past: Sacagawea -- Toward the Pacific coast -- The journey home -- Quiz.
Summary:
When President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition west, Lewis wrote a letter to his friend William Clark. Lewis asked Clark to help command the expedition. Clark accepted eagerly. Find out more in The Lewis and Clark Expedition, a title in the Building Our Nation series.
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