The Lewis and Clark exploration is one of the great American adventure stories--there's action and danger and hardship--but it's also a story of a how a group that included a several white men, a Native American woman, a French fur trapper, and a black slave succeed in a daunting journey that seemed, at times, impossible. Consider the various things the group documented during the journey - plants, animals, the geography of the region; how important do you think this information was in the development of the American West in the early 1800s?

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