Lewis and Clark

So soon after the louisiana purchase Thomas Jefferson chose two people to go explore the Louisiana purchase. The first one was Meriwether Lewis and his close friend William Clark. Their journey lasted for two years. They went up river through the Missouri River and the Colorado river. One women named Sacagawea from an Indian tribe helped them on their mission so much, without her they couldn't have made it. Their mission was very hard. Even though it was so hard only one person died from appendicitis! They got very hungry when they went up the Rocky Mountains, they even started to eat their horses but couldn't eat them for long because they were carrying a lot of supplies so they ate their dogs! They were usually nice to the Indians and traded with them sometimes. But sometimes they had to fight the Indians. Sometimes when they were going up stream where the waters were not very safe for canoes the Indian tribes gathered up to watch the White men die.