Lewis and Clark (1804-1806). US President Thomas Jefferson sent four dozen soldiers to explore the Missouri River, make diplomatic contact with Native Americans, and find the Northwest Passage (the much-sought-after northwestern water route to the Pacific Ocean.) The Corps of Discovery, as the expedition was called, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, along with their Shoshone interpreter and guide, Sacagawea, followed an adventure-filled route on their 2-year journey into America’s newly acquired Louisiana Territory.
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As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.
– Meriwether Lewis
Justin Fornal & Emiliano Ruprah
Explorers, Authors, TV Presenters
Justin Fornal is an international explorer and 2025 Society of American Travel Writers Gold Medal Awardee who has written extensively for National Geographic, VICE, The Explorers Journal, Parts Unknown, Adventure Journal, and Roads & Kingdoms.
Emiliano Ruprah is filmmaker and writer who has worked for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Discovery and RYOT producing films in conflict zones and with wild animals in 28 countries. The two longtime friends were hosts of Unexplained and Unexplored on the Discovery Channel.
Clay Jenkinson
Author, Explorer, Scholar
Clay Jenkinson is a public humanities scholar, a writer, a master interviewer and moderator, documentary filmmaker, and a historical impersonator (a Chautauquan). He is the author of 13 books spanning topics from Thomas Jefferson, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Theodore Roosevelt, the literature of pandemics, and his beloved North Dakota. He is frequently featured as an expert commentator on historical documentaries, collaborating with the likes of Ken Burns and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
We gave to each Chief a Medel of the Small Size, a red Silk handkerchief, arm band, Knife & a piece of Paint, and acknowledged them as chiefs; as we thought it necessary at this time to treat those people verry friendly & ingratiate our Selves with them, to insure us a kind & friendly reception on our return…
– William Clark