Lewis_And_Clark

Lewis And Clark What, you may ask, was the relevance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition' Well, for one thing the expedition was the first written account of life and nature on the west side of the Mississippi River. The expedition also showed the route of the Missouri River and were it eventually ended up. Lewis and Clark both astonished and amazed the United States with their discoveries and recordings. If it wasn’t for President Jefferson’s vision of exploring the western frontier, then the United States might not have prospered the way the did. In Lewis and Clarks journals, they wrote of sights they had seen during the day in order to make accurate and detailed maps of the land. Lewis also wrote of their encounters with the Indians in order to become more involved with their culture, languages, and customs. Most of the Indians Lewis and Clark encountered were welcoming and eager to greet them. They enjoyed the American gifts which Lewis brought and gave them food in return. The Indians were amazed at what the Americans brought, they had never seen anything like that before. They communicated with the Indians through sign language because they didn’t have a translator until Sacagawea joined lewis, indians, expedition, united, states, clark, one, gave, west, told, order, mission, journey, great, discovery, complete, wrote, without, western, valued, seen, river, person, part, never, might, make, made, just, honored, everyone, each, during, discoveries, crew, corps