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Mounting the Mississippi

11/20/2009: The Lewis and Clark expedition began their ascent up the Mississippi River on this day in 1803. The group, under the direction of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was composed of a ragtag band of military men, interpreters, traders, and boatmen. Although Lewis had originally intended to recruit fifteen men for the expedition, it was necessary to hire several more boatmen in Illinois Country - as the area was then known - in order to move the group's two large keelboats up the Mississippi on their way to the Missouri river. ....

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