How Did The Meriwether Lewis And Clark Expedition

In 1803, US President Thomas Jefferson founded the Discovery Corps and commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke to lead the expedition to the northwestern United States. Since 1804, Lewis and Clark have led an arduous exploration from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean and set foot on a 3,700-mile journey on a manned boat. They encountered many obstacles throughout the journey, including extreme weather, animal threats, and poor nutrition.

In one of Meriwether Lewis's journal dairies, he complained, "for my own part I suffered a severe Indisposition for 10 or 12 days, sick feeble and emaciated." Where on the same day William Clark recorded his conditions of feeling pain in his stomach and bowels. Journal entries like this were commonly
Once they've arrived, a serious problem had occurred-the men's health- On their way returning, countless of them suffered from being unwell and remaining weak for weeks. Poor nutrition was one of the major factors that led to the situation. "To reserve the parched meal, portable soup, and a considerable portion of pork and flour, which we had intended for the more difficult parts of our voyage." Said Lewis, Jefferson's hunting had made them successful. Although the precise consistency and composition of the "portable soup" were exotic and unidentified, 193 pounds of it was still purchased and brought to the trip. It as well became one of the most important food sources, especially when crossing the Rocky Mountains. The pork/nutrition was remained and still comestible after fifteen months, in August 1805 Lewis wrote in his diary, "as we had killed nothing during the day we now boiled and eat the remainder of our pork, having yet a little flour and parched meal." It is mainly these people's daily life to have an uncertain and unbalanced diet based on how the way they shoot and trade. On one hand, they were able to earn a high protein diet with berries, wild apples,
On their journey, they experienced extreme weather, transiting from extreme heat during the summer to acutely cold temperatures. The hails they experienced in Montana were described as "pigeon egg," multiple of Pacific coast storms caused an extreme snowpack in Idaho which then led to a delay of their trip to Saint Louis, deteriorated food supplies and sickness were also brought by the unceasing rains at Fort Clatsop, and Clark, Sacagawea, her son and other Expedition members nearly got flowed away by the flash floods in Montana. The flood of melted snow and spring water caused a struggle between which river they should follow to complete the expedition. Most believed/considered the damaged the weather brought as a tornado that twisted and blown down trees. One of the members, Omaha wrote, "Strong prairie wind storms tipped their canoes, almost sunk their keelboat, and showered them with sand and