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Lewis and Clark
Expedition for kids: Famous Lewis and Clark Quotes
The Lewis and Clark expedition took a total of took 863
days and covered over 7000 miles. Lewis and Clark Quotes
provide a fast overview of the successes and hardships of
their great journey west and the events of 1804, 1805 and
1806.
Famous Lewis
and Clark Quotes
The following fact sheet provides short, interesting Lewis
and Clark Quotes about Sacagawea, plants, animals, Oregon,
Montana, Idaho, the Expedition and the Pacific Ocean covering
1804, 1805 and 1806.
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Famous Lewis
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Animals: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Animals: "The Mink is found in the woody country on
this coast and does not differ in any particular from those
of the Atlantic coasts." Meriwether Lewis quote on February
23, 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Animals: "A species of Lizzard called by the French
prarie buffalo are native of these plains as well as of
those of the Missouri. I have called them the horned Lizzard."
Meriwether Lewis quote on May 29, 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Animals: "The Silver fox this animal is very rare
even in the country where it exists; I have never seen more
than the Skins of this anamal and those were in the possession
of the natives of the woody Country below the great falls
of the Columbia" Meriwether Lewis quote on February 21,
1806 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Animals: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Animals: "Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity
of Water in his hole." Quote by Meriwether Lewis on the
Prairie Dog on September 7, 1804 |
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Lewis and Clark
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Animals: "The large woolf found here is not as large
as those of the atlantic states. they are lower and thicker
made shorter leged. their color which is not effected by
the seasons, is gray or blackish brown and every intermediate
shade from that to a creen [cream] colored white; these
wolves resort [to] the woodlands and are also found in the
plains, but never take refuge in the ground or burrow so
far as I have been able to inform myself. we scarcely see
a gang of buffalo without observing a parsel of those faithfull
shepherds on their skirts in readiness to take care of the
mamed wounded. the large wolf never barks, but howls as
those of the atlantic states do." Quote about the Gray Wolf
by Meriwether Lewis on May 5, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Plants: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Plants: "Found two species of native clover here,
the one with a very narrow small leaf & a pale red flower."
Quote by Meriwether Lewis on Thin-leaved Owl Clover July
2, 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Plants: "In walking on Shore with the Interpreter
& his wife, Geathered on the Sides of the Hills wild Lickerish
& the white apple…" Quote by William Clark on Wild Licorice
(Glycyrrhiza lepidota) May 08,1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Plants: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Plants: "Some Native American children enjoyed the
sweet nectar, eating the flowers like candy. The Cheyenne
made a tea to relieve coughing." Quote by Meriwether Lewis
on Pink Elephants (Pedicularis groenlandica) July 6, 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Sacagawea:
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Sacagawea: "The
men who were complaining of the head ake and cholick yesterday
and last night are much better to day. Shabonos Squar gathered
a quantity of fenel roots which we find very paliatiable
and nurushing food" Clark, May 16, 1806 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Sacagawea: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Sacagawea: "Charbono and his Indian woman were also
of the party; the Indian woman was very impo[r]tunate to
be permitted to go, and was therefore indulged; she observed
that she had traveled a long way with us to see the great
waters, and that now that monstrous fish was also to be
seen, she thought it very hard she could not be permitted
to see either" (she had never yet been to the Ocean).
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Sacagawea: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Sacagawea and the role of a Shoshone woman: "They
collect the wild fruits and roots, attend to the horses
or assist in that duty, cook, dress the skins and make all
the apparel, collect wood and make their fires, arrange
and form their lodges [brush teepees], and when they travel,
pack the horses and take charge of all the baggage; in short
the man dose [does] little else except attend his horses
hunt and fish" Quote by Meriwether Lewis on August 19, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Oregon: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Oregon: "This evening we had what I call an excellent
supper it consisted of a marrowbone a piece and a brisket
of boiled Elk that had the appearance of a little fat on
it. this for Fort Clatsop is living in high stile." — Meriwether
Lewis on February 7, 1806 at Fort Clatsop |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Montana: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Montana: "The hills and river clifts which we passed
today exhibit a most romantic appearance. The bluffs of
the river rise to the hight of from 2 to 300 feet and in
most places nearly perpendicular... the soft sand clifts
woarn into a thousand grotesque figures . . . with the help
of a little immagination are made to represent the eligant
ranges of lofty freestone buildings... collumns of various
sculpture both grooved and plain... with the help of less
immagination we see the remains of ruins of eligant buildings."
Montana Quote about Eagle Creek in Chouteau County, Montana
on May 31, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
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Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Montana: "I should have returned from hence but hearing
a tremendous roaring above me I continued my rout across
the point of a hill a few hundred yards further and was
again presented by one of the most beautiful objects in
nature, a cascade of about fifty feet perpendicular stretching
at right angles across the river from side to side to the
distance of at least a quarter of a mile. here the river
pitches over a shelving rock, with an edge as regular and
as streight as if formed by art, but without a nich or brake
in it; the water descends in one even and uninterupted sheet
to the bottom wher dashing against the rocky bottom rises
into foaming billows of great hight and rappidly glides
away, hissing flashing and sparkling as it departs the sprey
rises from one extremity to the other to 50 f." Great Falls
of the Missouri, near Black Coulee, Portage, Montana on
June 14, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Idaho: |
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Quotes about Idaho: Clark "asked Camehewait by what
rout the pierced nose indians, who he informed me inhabited
this river below the mountains, came over to the Missouri;
this he informed me was to the N., but added that the road
was a very bad one as he had informed them and that they
suffered excessively with hunger on the rout being obliged
to subsist for many days on berries alone as there was no
game in that part of the mountains which were broken and
rockey and so thickly covered with timber that they could
scarcely pass. however knowing that Indians had passed,
and did pass, at this season on that side of this river
to the same below the mountains, my rout was instantly settled
in my own mind, provided the account of this should prove
true on an investigation of it, which I was determined should
be made before we would undertake the rout by land in any
direction." August 20, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Idaho: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about Idaho: Clark investigated the hot springs at Lolo
Pass, between Montana and Idaho: "I found this water nearly
boiling hot at the places it spouted from the rocks." Sept.
13, 1805 at Lolo Pass, between Montana and Idaho
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Pacific Ocean: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about the Pacific Ocean: "Ocian in view! O! the Joy" "This
great Pacific Octean which we been So long anxious to See.
and the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the
rockey Shores (as I Suppose) may be heard distictly. William
Clark Quote on the Pacific Ocean November 7, 1805 |
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Lewis and Clark
Quotes about Pacific Ocean: |
Lewis and Clark Quotes
about the Pacific Ocean: "...men appear much Satisfied with
their trip beholding with estonishment the high waves dashing
against the rocks & this emence ocian..." William Clark
quote on November 18, 1805 |
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Famous Lewis
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