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Title: Stories of American pioneers: Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Fremont, Kit Carson
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Pratt-Chadwick, Mara L. (Mara Louise)
Subjects: Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 Clark, William, 1770-1838 Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890 Carson, Kit, 1809-1868
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Educational publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ory terms with France, and the landwest of the Mississippi became the propertyof our people. Now^ we are indeed a great country,said Jefferson. Our land stretches fromocean to ocean. We have homes for all whowill come to our shores ; and we shall some- LEWIS AND CLARK. time be, perhaps, the greatest among nations. Now Jefferson was a man of action.Therefore when the land was once the prop-erty of the United States, he appointed twomen — Lewis and Clark—to explore it. Now, we sometimes think that all theexploring was done in the times of De vSotoand La Salle ; but this is not so. It is hard for us to understand it; butw^hen in 1804 — only about ninety years ago —these two brave men set out, there was just asmuch danger and hardship before them asever there had been in the days of De Sotoand La Salle. The forests were just as dense. TheIndians quite as likely to prove unfriendly;the swamps and morasses were just astreacherous. The great rivers of the far west were all T^^^^^s^l^
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LEWIS AND CLARK. unknown ; and as to distances and directions,these men knew no more than had thosedaring men that followed Columbus. Oftenthey would wander into dense wildernesses,from which it was almost impossible to es-cape. They could neither go on nor retreat,such was the danger before them and behind.Often they would travel for days along atrail, only to come in the end to some in-surmountable mountain range, or some riverunsafe to cross by boat and impossible toford. Still, knowing that all these things mustbe, Lewis and Clark set out, commissionedby Jefferson, to explore the new country andmake a report to the government of all thathappened to them. St. Louis was then the most prosperoustrading station ; and the government had 80 LEWLS AND CLARK. hopes that some direct route might be dis-covered from that station to the Pacific. Full directions were given the twoexplorers, and with boats laden with presentsfor the possibly hostile Indians, they set out. First, they were to vi

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