![]() ![]() ![]() “Christmas 25th Decr:'' Clark wrote in 1803. Moulton - labored two decades to bring the words of “the writingest explorers of their time'' to life. Louis to Oregon and back, history buffs will be able to track details and daily life along the trail largely because a University of Nebraska historian - Gary E. This year, as America celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from St. He had broken through ice the day before while trying to cross a pond on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.Īfter the dunking, Clark wrote, “I returned before Sun Set, and found that my feet, which were wet, had frozed to my Shoes, which rendered precaution necessary to prevent a frost bite, the Wind from the W, across the Sand Islands in the mouth of the Missouries, raised Such a dust that I could not see in that derection, the Ice Continue to run & river rise Slowly – exceeding Cold day.” Louis for a trek with Meriwether Lewis to the Pacific. In January 1804, William Clark felt ill as he waited near St. Bill Graham, writing in the Kansas City Star (Feb. ![]()
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