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Lewis and Clark Expedition
While Meriwether Lewis and William Clark became well-known for crossing the Rocky Mountains and canoeing across the Columbia River in the West, the inspiration for their Corps of Discovery Expedition (1803-1806), better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, emerged from Philadelphia's libraries and scientific ...