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Week 2: Joining the Corps
Week 3: Along the Missouri
Week 4: Letter Home
Week 5: Fort Mandan
Week 6: Crossing the Rockies
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From our Journals...

Sept 19 1803
This very day I got a letter from Lewis asking me to go on a long and dangorous journey to map out the land and discover an over land route to the pacific ocean for Thomas Jefferson.I would love to go for I am good with the out doors. He also said he needs men lots of them.He needs lots of multi tasked men to cook, build, hunt and most of all he needs me.He says we'll be equal partners for the whole time. We will bring goods to trade with the tribes for horses. We will also need food, boats and guns. All of this will cost alot of money for such a long trip. We will depart on May 5th 1804!
Captain William Clark


Dear Mother, Father and Brother,
We are farther ahead in our planned route than I expected. In the Map I've drawn, the arrow shows where I thought we would be, and the dot shows where we are. My health is good, except for a mild cold. I have made some new friends such as John Collins William Bratton, and Francois Labiche. We were stayin with the Teton Sioux Indians, but they turned out to be not so friendly. Sadly, we have witnessed the death of Sgt. Charles Floyd. On August 20, his last dying words to Captain Lewis were "I'm going away for a while. Write me a letter." I can remember a time when I went out hunting with Floyd. We brought back a buffalo for dinner, and a Praire dog for Lewis to send back to Jefferson. It looks like Captain Lewis and Captain Clark are planning to Stay with the Mandan Indians for the winter. Right now we are busy making Warm clothes and storing food. Thank you for taking care of my dog. I wish that all of you were here.
-John Colter

Dear Journal,
In my last journal entry I forgot to write about the nice people in the Corps of Discovery. The red-headed chief (Clark) does maps and is mapping/charting our journey as I speak. Lewis is more of what I call a Medicine man. I didn't know it at first but when I was having my baby someone gave me a liquid in which I drank, it worked like magic! After that my husband Charbaneau told me it was a mixture of rattlesnake rattle and water. There is a nice man named Pierre Cruzatte who plays beautiful music. There is another translater named Druillard. The red-headed chief has a slave that he brought and he looks as if he was painted with black war paint. His name is York. Lewis has a dog named Scannon. Just recently they sent the biggest boat I have ever seen down the Missouri (the keelboat). Charbaneau said it had lots of items from this territory including a prairie dog. I hope we run into Shoshone people: my people. A question for me to think about is: Will we make it to the big water?
-SACAGEWEA-


Dec 18 1803
Were at Camp Wood today. I slept in too late. I forgot to ask Gass to wake me up. He always gets up really early so I ask him to wake me up. Today we are going to make new candles repair canoes, eat, trade and observe the area. My main job is to get the food to eat. We'll need to get to work now! Sergant John Ordway.

March 20,1805 6:00 pm
Recently we have sent the keel boat back to St.Louis. We filled it with specemins we found and Lewis' journals and maps. I am hoping that this will help Americans in all of their studies and wonderins of the west, along with inviting them to follow us to the Pacific to live.