Official guide to the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 1 to October 15, 1905 .. . e start was made fromCamp Dubois, Illinois, a few miles above St. Louis, May14, 1804. The party ascended the Missouri River andspent the following winter amongst the Mandan Indiansin what is now North Dakota. On April 7, 1805, the ex-pedition resumed the voyage up the Missouri to a pointnear the headwaters of that stream, and traveled by landthrough the mountains. They went down the ColumbiaRiver to its mouth, reaching the Pacific Ocean November7th, having traveled more than 4,000 mil
Official guide to the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition, Portland, Oregon, June 1 to October 15, 1905 .. . e start was made fromCamp Dubois, Illinois, a few miles above St. Louis, May14, 1804. The party ascended the Missouri River andspent the following winter amongst the Mandan Indiansin what is now North Dakota. On April 7, 1805, the ex-pedition resumed the voyage up the Missouri to a pointnear the headwaters of that stream, and traveled by landthrough the mountains. They went down the ColumbiaRiver to its mouth, reaching the Pacific Ocean November7th, having traveled more than 4,000 miles. Spendingthe winter in a log stockade which they built on thesouth side of the Columbia, in what is now ClatsopCounty, Oregon, they started upon the return journeyMarch 23, 1806, reaching St. Louis September 23d, afteran absence of two years and four months. They werethe first Americans who crossed the continent. The success of the Lewis and Clark expedition en-abled the United States to acquire all the territory nowembraced in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and thewestern parts of Montana and Wyoming. 2. /^W^HE Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition andVL Oriental Fair, the first international expositionunder the patronage of the United States Gov-ernment ever held west of the Rocky Mountains, is ademonstration of the marvelous progress of WesternAmerica and an exemplification of thegreat possibilities for trade developmentPlan and Scope in the Orient. The exposition is a worldsof the Exposition ^ir m eveiT sense, all of the chief nations______________ of Europe and the Orient being partici-pants, and many of the American statestaking part. The Western states, from the Rocky Moun-tains to the Pacific, are participants upon a larger scalethan has been the case at any previous exposition. Eachof the Pacific Coast states is represented by exhibitswhich, for the first time, show to the world comprehen-sively the marvelous achievements of the Coast country,its wonderful natural ric
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