Compare And Contrast Lewis And Clark Expedition

Hey Clark found another animal it is long and no arms or legs. When Lewis and Clark went west to find out about the Louisiana territory. Lewis and Clark went off on their expedition on May 4, 1804 and came back September 23, 1806. They tried to find the Northwest Passage for the Pacific to the Port of New Orleans. Bull snake was found on August 5, 2801 near the mouth of Niobrara River, Nebraska. It was a large yellowish snake with 41 or more black, brown, or reddish-brown body blotches, dark line from eye angle of jaw. Didn’t eat the snake didn’t want to harm them. They found it June 8, 1806, on the Weippe Prairie, Idaho. Small single Fibe-petal flowers, ranging from white to deep pink in color. Sweet-smelling native rose. Grows 3-8 feet
He was Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary he asked him to do the expedition so he asked Clark who he asked to do it with him. Clark, he entered the military at 19 he was the mapmaker on the expedition. He got a letter from an old friend Lewis, invited him to share command of an expedition of the land west of the Mississippi River. Lewis and Clark were both experienced soldiers and outdoorsmen. Sacagawea was the daughter of the Shoshone chief. Around the age of 12 she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her his wife. In November 1804, she was invited to the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a Shoshone interpreter. She gave birth to a son on the expedition name Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. She realized that the leader was actually her brother Cameahwait. It was through her that the expedition was able to buy horses for the Shoshone to cross the Rocky Mountains. At the end they got home September 23, 1806. Only one person died on the expedition Sergeant Charles Floyd on August 20, 1804. They collected 174 plants and 134. They traveled more than 8,000 miles they were gone for 28 months (2 ¼