Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West Book

On May 14, 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, leaders of the Corps of Discovery, eagerly set off from St. Louis on their journey to explore the American wilderness. President Thomas Jefferson had asked Lewis and Clark to chart the Missouri River and to find a water route that might lead to the Pacific Ocean. Throughout their two-year trip into unknown territory, Lewis and Clark recorded their many experiences in their journals. On September 23, 1806, the Corps of Discovery jubilantly returned to St. Louis and became the first expedition to have crossed the great American West.

A biography of the two men who led the two and one-half year expedition that explored the Louisiana Purchase territory and the Pacific Northwest from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.