Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West in 1804-1805

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1804

• May 14 - Corps of Discovery leaves St. Charles, Missouri, beginning the voyage to the Pacific.
• May 25 - Expedition passes the small village of La Charette on Missouri. Floyd states in his journal that this is "the last settlement of whites on this river."
• July 4 - Marking the Independence Day, the expedition names Independence Creek on Mississippi.
• August 3 - Corps of Discovery hold the first official council between representatives of the United States and the Oto and Missouri Indians. They hand out peace medals, 15-star flags and other gifts, parade men and show off technology.
• August 20 - Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, the only member lost during the expedition.
• August 30 - A friendly council with Yankton Indians held. According to a legend, Lewis wraps a newborn baby in a United States flag and declares him "an American".
• September 7 - The whole expedition drowns a prairie dog out of its den to send back to Jefferson.
• September 25 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats as a toll for moving further upriver.
• October 24 - Expedition reaches the earth-log villages of the Mandans and the Hidatsas. The captains decide to build Fort Mandan across the river from the main village.
• November 4 - The captains hire Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trapper living among the Hidatsas with his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea.
• December 24 - Fort Mandan is considered complete. Expedition moves in for the winter.

1805

• November 7 - Corps of Discovery encounters the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River.
• December 25 - Corps of Discovery moves into newly constructed Fort Clatsop to spend the winter.

1806

• January 1 - Several Corps members build a salt-making cairn near present-day Seaside, Oregon.
• March 23 - Corps of Discovery leaves Fort Clatsop on return voyage east.
• September 23 - Corps of Discovery returns to St. Louis, Missouri, ending the journey east.

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