. St. Nicholas [serial]. ONE OF LEWIS AND CLARK S MEN A FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE ROCKIES. WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY. Just after the completion of the LouisianaPurchase of 1803,—which is commemorated bythe Worlds Fair of this year at St. Louis,—the American Congress, urged by PresidentJefferson, authorized an expedition to explorethe newly acquired territory. President Jeffer-sons private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, wasappointed commander of this expedition, and hechose as his associate Captain William Clark,an old army friend. A hundred years ago this month these in-trepid men,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ONE OF LEWIS AND CLARK S MEN A FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE ROCKIES. WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY. Just after the completion of the LouisianaPurchase of 1803,—which is commemorated bythe Worlds Fair of this year at St. Louis,—the American Congress, urged by PresidentJefferson, authorized an expedition to explorethe newly acquired territory. President Jeffer-sons private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, wasappointed commander of this expedition, and hechose as his associate Captain William Clark,an old army friend. A hundred years ago this month these in-trepid men, with a small party of about thirtyexplorers, were well away on their journey upthe Missouri River, as far as the mouth of the Platte. In May of the following year they hadtheir first glimpse of die Rockies, and beforethat year (1805) was ended they had crossedthe Great Range and pushed on to the PacificOcean by way of the Columbia River. Duringcertain parts of their journey they endured greathardships, and for fiftee
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