| When Thomas Jefferson sent a team of explorers to discover a way to the
Pacific Ocean two hundred years ago, the western border of the United States was
the Mississippi River. It was Jefferson’s dream to uncover the mysteries of the
distant lands beyond. In 1803, the president sent a team of thirty men, lead by
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, up the Missouri River, across the Rocky
Mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific, and back home again. During
this monumental, two-and-a-half-year expedition, Lewis and Clark gathered
samples of plants, animals, and Indian crafts. Into the Wilderness
describes the difficult yet successful journey that made these men the
celebrated heroes they are today.
James J. Holmberg, curator of special collections at the Filson Historical Society, is the author of Dear
Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark.
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