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The two-and-half-year round trip was arduous ... Indians, weather, insects, isolation, the terrain, starvation, injuries and illnesses challenged the men, and Seaman, too.
If the Corp of Discovery exploits spurs your curiosity, take a trip to Nebraska City and visit with Doug Friedli, the Executive Director of the Missouri River Basin, Lewis and Clark Center. It’s a beautiful museum in the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River Valley, close to where the expedition camped.
One of the more interesting encounters for the explorers heading west was with Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman who, in her teens with child, helped and perhaps saved the Corps from attack and starvation. She joins the ranks of early American women who made a difference in the history of the United States.
The Corps of Discovery achieved an incredible feat that expanded knowledge of our country and initiated the largest peacetime migration ever known to mankind.
Their efforts and discoveries awakened a young nation and its citizens to the potential within us all. The point of this article is to remind us of, as a people, what we went through, how we got here and hopefully leaves you wanting to know more.
We salute the brave men — and woman — who risked their lives in search of, “what’s out there?”
