Posted by admin on October 27, 2009 under Fun Facts, Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Fun Facts | 
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Twenty years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Thomas Jefferson hoped to mount the “Clark Expedition.” In 1783, Jefferson asked William Clark’s brother and Revolutionary War hero, George Rogers Clark, to lead a cross country expedition to explore the west. Clark declined the offer.
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It is not surprising that after their trip ended, the adventurers felt a lifelong debt to Sacagawea. In fact, Clark wrote to Charbonneau that Sacagawea deserved a greater reward than what the expedition gave her. His sense of indebtedness to Sacagawea is reflected a few years later when Clark accepted responsibility for educating Sacagawea’s son and, after Sacagawea’s death at the age of 25, for a daughter as well. Sacagawea’s grave is in Lander, WY.
Posted by admin on October 26, 2009 under Fun Facts, Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea Fun Facts | Be the First to Comment
Thomas Jefferson’s intellectual curiosity drew him into an accelerating, three-hundred-year-old quest to find a water route to Asia, and he personally planned the successful expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1804 to 1806.
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