Wonders
of the Wilderness
Lewis
and Clark Expedition
The Navigators
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"Of
courage undaunted, possesing a firmness & perseverance of purpose which
nothing but impossibilities could divert from it's direction, careful aas
a father of those committed to his charge, yet steady in the maintenance
of order & discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs
& principles, habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exact observation
of the vegetables & animals of his own country, against losing time
in the description of objects already possessed, honest, disinterested,
liberal, of sound understanding and fidelity to truth so scrupulous that
whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves,
with all these qualifications as if selected and implanted by nature in
one body, for this express purpose, I could have no hesitation in confiding
the enterprize to him."
--Thomas
Jefferson
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