Bicentennial Story #105-Lewis & Clark leave Fort Mandan

Bicentennial Story #105-Lewis & Clark leave Fort Mandan

Account from Meriwether Lewis on the day they left Fort Mandan on April 7, 1805.

9/24/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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BS-105

Fort Mandan, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

On April 7, 1805, Lewis and Clark left their winter quarters, Fort Mandan and set out up the Missouri, eager to reach the Pacific by fall, Lewis noted in his journal that day:
"Our vessels consisted of six small canoes, and two large peroques. This little fleet altho' not quite so respectable as those of Columbus or Capt. Cook, were still viewed by us with as much pleasure as those deservedly famed adventurers ever beheld theirs. . . . We were now about to penetrate a country where the foot of civilized man had never trodden; the good or evil it had in store for us was for experiment yet to determine."

This is Bicentennial Story No. 105, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Reid, p. 196

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