Pike expedition accomplished all its goals

The Gazette | August 7, 2000| | Copyright

In the early 19th century, America was a country in transition. With the Louisiana Purchase, it suddenly had doubled in size. But still, only four roads crossed the Appalachian Mountains, and only 500,000 of the 5.3 million Americans lived west of that range.

President Thomas Jefferson had engineered the purchase of the giant chunk of land from the French, and he wanted to know what was out there. So in 1804, he appointed two Army officers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to explore the West. Covering 8,000 miles in 28 months, they returned with tales of vast herds of buffalo, sometimes ...

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