LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 



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LEWISTON 



following April, and the expedition pressed on. 

 In September, 1805, the Rocky Mountains were 

 crossed, and the Pacific Ocean came in sight on 

 November 7. After spending the winter on 

 the coast, the party started on its return trip 

 in March, 1806, and arrived in Saint Louis on 



ROUTE OF THE EXPEDITION 



September 23, after an 8,500-mile journey, to 

 tell a wonder story of the vast continental em- 

 pire no white men had ever before seen. Much 

 valuable information concerning the climate, 

 geography and animal life of the regjon was se- 

 cured. On this expedition was based the claim 

 of the United States that brought the nation 

 eventual ownership of the great Oregon coun- 

 try. The story of Lewis and Clark has been 

 entertainingly told by Parkman in his Oregon 

 Trail. See LEWIS, 

 MBRIWETHER; 

 CLARK, WILLIAM. 

 Sacaga wea. 

 One woman ac- 

 companied the 

 expedition in the 

 most difficult part 

 of its journey, 

 from Bismarck to 

 the coast and 

 back. She was 

 Sacagawea, I n - 

 dian wife of the 

 party's French- 

 Canadian inter- 

 pret e r . Born 



among the Sho- 



o , Erected by the women of 



Shonee, or Snake, the United States in memory 



Indians? in what f the only woman of the 



ins, in wnat Lewj? and * clark expedition, 



is now the state and in honor of the pioneer 



^f ~fj u u u j mother of the Oregon coun- 



Ot Idaho, she had try. In a, in the illustration, 



been captured by is snown b th statue and its 



pCQ6Stcll. 



another tribe 



v/hen a young girl and sold to her husband. 

 When the Lewis and Clark party passed through 

 the country in which she had spent her girl- 

 hood she was able to render invaluable service, 



THE SACAGAWEA 

 STATUE 



guiding it through the mountains and persuad- 

 ing the Indians of her tribe to furnish horses 

 and give other assistance. A statue to her has 

 been erected in Portland, Ore. 



Lewis and Clark Exposition, an industrial 

 exposition, also called the AMERICAN PACIFIC 

 EXPOSITION, held in Portland, Ore., in 1905 

 to commemorate the anniversary of the Lewis 

 and Clark expedition. On May 30, 1903, Con- 

 gress passed an act to celebrate the exploration 

 of the Oregon country and appropriated the 

 sum of $500,000 for the purpose. Missouri, the 

 state (later) from which the expedition started, 

 appropriated $500,000, and each of the states 

 of the Northwest contributed. Portland was 

 chosen as the site, as it was the point where 

 the explorers spent the winter in 1805; the 

 exposition structures were all reminders of the 

 changes brought about during one hundred 

 years of advancement. 



LEW'ISTON, IDAHO, the county seat of Nez 

 Perce County, and the center of a prosperous 

 mining and agricultural district. It is situated 

 on the Idaho and Washington boundary line, 

 147 miles south and east of Spokane, and is at 

 the head of navigation on the Snake River, at 

 the mouth of the Clearwater River. The city 

 is served by the Northern Pacific Railroad and 

 the Oregon- Washington Railroad & Naviga- 

 tion Company. Population, 1910, 6,043. 



Lewiston, though one of the oldest places in 

 the state, is a thoroughly modern town. It is 

 the seat of the state normal school and has 

 the Supreme Court Library, a Carnegie Li- 

 brary, Saint Joseph's Hospital and a United 

 States Weather Bureau station. It is the out- 

 fitting point of an extensive mining country, 

 and has important lumbering, fruit-growing, 

 dairying and stock-raising interests. Flour and 

 boxes are manufactured. Lewiston became a 

 city in 1890, and later adopted the commission 

 form of government. J.A. 



LEWISTON, ME., an important manufac- 

 turing city, situated in Androscbggin County, 

 in the southwestern part of the state, on the 

 east bank of the Androscoggin River, thirty 

 miles from the ocean. Portland is thirty-five 

 miles south. The Grand Trunk, the Portland 

 & Rumford Falls and Maine Central railways 

 serve the city. Electric lines connect with 

 Portland and Brunswick on the coast and with 

 Augusta, thirty miles northeast. In 1770 the 

 settlement was known as the Plantation of 

 Lewiston ; it was incorporated in 1795 and char- 

 tered as a city in 1861. In population it ranked 

 second in the state in 1916, having 27,809 peo- 



