The Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book
The Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book On April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Agreement between France and the United States was formally signed. The Purchase effectively doubled the size of…
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Coloring Book
On April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Agreement between France and the United States was formally signed. The Purchase effectively doubled the size of the young United States.On May 14, 1804, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark -- accompanied by an intrepid band of skilled hunters, carpenters, gunsmiths, and blacksmiths -- sailed up the Missouri River with a small fleet of three vessels. President Thomas Jefferson paid the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte approximately 18 cents per square mile for a vast wilderness territory (more than 825,000 square miles) stretching from New Orleans to the Canadian border and west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.
For the next two years, this dauntless team navigated insect- and snake-infested waterways, crossed scorching plains, scaled frigid mountain passes, battled hostile Indians, and faced near-starvation--all