INTRODUCTION From: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Cox, Robert S | Copyright American Philosophical Society 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

FROM THE COMPARATIVE comfort of Saint Louis, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sat down in September 1806 to transcribe their meticulous journals and to inform President Thomas Jefferson that they had at last returned from their odyssey into the northwestern wilds. With an ear for language usually reserved for politicians and their defense attorneys, Lewis reported that the Corps of Discovery had succeeded in "penitrat[ing] the Continent of North America to the Pacific Ocean" and had explore...

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