Lewis and Clark
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May 14, 1804
Lewis and Clark leave from St. Louis
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1803
Lewis and Clark establish Camp Wood, the winter camp for their Corps of Discovery, on the Wood River in Illinois.
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1804
Sergeant Charles Floyd dies of natural causes near present-day Sioux City, Iowa; he will be the only death among the Corps of Discovery during the expedition.
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1804
The Corps holds a council with the Yankton Sioux at present-day Yankton, South Dakota.
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1804
The Corps enters the Great Plains and sees animals unknown in the eastern United States.
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1804
Near today's Bismarck, North Dakota, the Corps arrives at the villages of the Mandan and Hidatsa, buffalo-hunting tribes that live along the Missouri River.
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1804
Lewis and Clark hire French Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau and his wife, Sacagawea, to act as interpreters on the journey ahead.
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1805
they kill their first grizzly bear near the Yellowstone River in Montana.
Photo by Douglas Brown
1805
The main party arrives at the Shoshone camp, where Sacagawea recognizes the chief as her brother Cameahwait.
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