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Spring
Lewis leaves Washington D.C and
heads to Philadelphia to prepare for expedition.
March 23
The expedition heads back
toward home.
Fall
July 4
Lewis leaves Washington D.C. and heads to Pittsburgh to
oversee keelboat construction.
The Corps of Discovery expedition heads down
the Ohio River.
Camp Wood/Camp Dubois is established on
the east bank of Mississippi River
upstream from St. Louis, Missouri.
December 12
The Corps of Discovery returns home to St. Louis.
September 23
May 14
The expedition leaves Camp Wood/Camp
Dubois with roughly 50 men. They travel up the Missouri River in three
boats.
September 7
The group sees new animals like coyotes
and antelope in South Dakota.
August 3
First official council between Native tribes of the West and U.S. officials just North of Omaha, Nebraska.
November 4
Near Bismarck, North Dakota, the expedition
group meets Sacagawea.
April 7
Lewis and Clark send one of the
boats back down river carrying
goods to show Thomas Jefferson
such as Indian corn and a prairie dog.
October 16
The expedition reaches the
Columbia River, full of salmon.
June 13
Lewis discovers a grand waterfall followed by four others along the Missouri River.
December 17
The group records a temperature of 45
degrees below zero.
February 11
Sacagawea has a baby boy named Jean
Baptiste.
April 29
The expedition reaches what is now Montana
where they encounter a herd
of 10,000 buffalo.
August 17
The expedition finds a Shoshone village where the
chief is Sacagawea’s
brother.
August 12
Lewis reaches the border between Montana and Idaho and sees only more mountains.
November 7
After seeing what he thinks is the end of land, Lewis and his group are stranded for 3 weeks due to
high winds.
July
The group reaches the Three Forks of the Missouri and Sacagawea finally recognizes where they are.
Timeline of the Lewisand Clark Expedition
1803 1804 18061805
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