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Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Lewis and Clark Visitor Centers-Kansas
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Geese at Kaw Point, an Expedition camp site in 1804, Kansas City, Kansas. |
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Frontier
Army Museum
100 Reynolds Ave.
Fort Leavenworth,
KS 66027
Phone: (913) 684-3767
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Did You Know?
Jefferson expected the Expedition to learn about the people, plants and animals of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. None of the men of the Expedition was a trained scientist, but fulfilling Jefferson’s instructions required skills in cartography, ethnography, botany, zoology, and meteorology.
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Last Updated: October 04, 2006 at 14:02 EST |