Lewis and Clark Expedition
Expedición de Lewis y Clark
- Date
- 1804-1806 · confidence high
- Place
- Fort Clatsop, Oregon, United States
- Credited to
- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (with Sacagawea)
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The Corps of Discovery expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia, which mapped the Missouri, the Rockies and the Northwest and described hundreds of species. It gave the US government a map of the continent's interior.
They did not find the hoped-for river passage to the Pacific. What they mapped depended heavily on guides and Native maps.
What it led to
- map of the Missouri and the route to the Pacific coast
- US westward expansion and the Oregon Trail