Lewis and Clark Expedition

<p><span class="deck"> John Charles Frémont never succeeded in living up to his fame, yet he was one of America’s great explorers</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Medicine was primitive and their knowledge of it limited, but in their hazardous journey to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark lost only one patient</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The first men to follow Lewis and Clark across the continent to the Pacific were John Jacob Astor’s fur traders. They discovered the formidable chasm of Idaho’s Snake River—and almost never got out</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The Last Stand of King Grizzly</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Piskiou,Vaches Sauvages, Buffler, Prairie Beeves—</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">An exploration into the exploration of America</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> After three times</lead_in> traveling the trail they blazed, the author imagines what the two captains of Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery would make of the civilization we have built on the tremendous promise they offered.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">NOT IN YOUR POCKET, PROBABLY</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The explorers who set out 200 years ago were in danger for three years. Their legacy was in danger for decade after decade, and it was Meriwether Lewis who almost killed it.</span></p>