Slide1: St. Louis to the Pacific and back! The Lewis and Clark Expedition


Recap : Recap


Thomas Jefferson : Thomas Jefferson Loved Exploration Tried several times to explore the West! George Roger Clark 1781 John Leyland 1785 Andre Michaux 1792


Louisiana Purchase : Louisiana Purchase


1803: 1803


Who are These Guys: Who are These Guys


William Clark : William Clark Meriwether Lewis


Meriwether Lewis: Meriwether Lewis


Meriwether Lewis: Meriwether Lewis Personal Secretary to Thomas Jefferson Captain in the US Army Served 6 Years on the Frontier Fiercely loyal, disciplined, and flexible Moody, speculative, and melancholic Sharp eye for detail


William Clark: William Clark Lewis’ commanding officer in 1795 physical and mental qualities beneficial as a leader of the Corps Less formal educational training than Lewis Better Woodsman In charge of assembling the men for the Corps of Discovery


Lewis goes to Philly: Lewis goes to Philly American Philosophical Society Botany Zoology Astronomy Medicine


Lewis goes to Harpers Ferry: Lewis goes to Harpers Ferry American Armory Gets the newest and best guns Portable Boats (Iron Framed)


Guns: Guns


Pistol: Pistol


Men of the Expedition : Men of the Expedition Sergeants Charles Floyd John Ordway (J) Patrick Gass (J) Nathaniel Pryor (J)


Privates & Non-Military Members: Privates & Non-Military Members Non-Military Members George Drouillard York 2 Others Toussiant Charboneau Sacagewea & Pomp (son) Privates 23 Men


One Dog: Seaman One Dog


York : York


What to Bring?: What to Bring? Camping Supplies Arms and Ammunition Medicine and Medical Supplies Traveling Library Presents for Indians


What would you bring?: What would you bring? From the 5 Categories on the previous slide what items would you bring? List 2 from each!


Camping Supplies: Camping Supplies pliers chisels 30 steels for striking to make fire handsaws hatchets whetstones iron corn mill two dozen tablespoons mosquito curtains 10 1/2 pounds of fishing hooks and fishing lines 12 pounds of soap 193 pounds of "portable soup" (a thick paste concocted by boiling down beef, eggs and vegetables) three bushels of salt writing paper, ink and crayons


Arms and Ammunition: Arms and Ammunition 15 prototype Model 1803 muzzle-loading .54 caliber rifles knives 500 rifle flints 420 pounds of sheet lead for bullets 176 pounds of gunpowder packed in 52 lead canisters 1 long-barreled rifle that fired its bullet with compressed air, rather than by flint, spark and powder


Medicine and Medical Supplies: Medicine and Medical Supplies 50 dozen Dr. Rush’s patented "Rush’s pills" lancets forceps syringes tourniquets 1,300 doses of physic 1,100 hundred doses of emetic 3,500 doses of diaphoretic (sweat inducer) other drugs for blistering, salivation and increased kidney output


Traveling Library: Traveling Library Barton’s Elements of Botany Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s History of Louisiana Richard Kirwan’s Elements of Mineralogy A Practical Introduction to Spherics and Nautical Astronomy The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical a four-volume dictionary a two-volume edition of Linnaeus (the founder of the Latin classification of plants) tables for finding longitude and latitude map of the Great Bend of the Missouri River


Presents for Indians: Presents for Indians 12 dozen pocket mirrors 4,600 sewing needles 144 small scissors 10 pounds of sewing thread silk ribbons ivory combs handkerchiefs yards of bright-colored cloth 130 rolls of tobacco tomahawks that doubled as pipes 288 knives 8 brass kettles vermilion face paint 33 pounds of tiny beads of assorted colors


Gifts for the Indians: Gifts for the Indians


Instruments : Instruments thermometers 2 sextants set of plotting instruments chronometer (needed to calculate longitude)


Instruments: Instruments hand compass quadrants telescope surveyor’s compass


Boats: Boats Keelboat White Pirogue Red Pirogue


Keelboat: Keelboat


White Pirogue: White Pirogue


Red Pirogue: Red Pirogue


The Journals – Natives : The Journals – Natives


The Journals: The Journals


The Journals – Botany : The Journals – Botany


Botany : Botany


The Journals – Zoology : The Journals – Zoology


New Discoveries: New Discoveries


Beaverhead Rock: Beaverhead Rock


The Mouth of the Columbia River: The Mouth of the Columbia River


Meeting the Columbia Natives: Meeting the Columbia Natives


Sacagawea: Sacagawea