The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Mrs. BurkeGuadalupe Lara 2012

Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis was Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary.

He died by a gun shot , and he got the kid of Sacajawea who was Pomp/Baptiste.

He was one of the leaders of the expedition.

He had Scannon/Seamen as his dog.

William Clark

William Clark was Lewis’s friend of Lewis.

He was called The Red headed Chief.

He died in 1838 at the age of 68.

He married a girl named Julia Hancock.

He was one of the leaders of the expedition too.

Sacajawea

Sacajawea was one of the member of the Shoshone Tribe.

She was captured when she was a young girl.

They killed her family and many people. She had a baby named Pomp/Baptiste.She had a girl too.

Seamen/Scannon

Seamen was Lewis’s dog. He helped in the

expedition a lot. He knew when trouble

came or when danger came.

He had two names.

St. Louis

St. Louis ,Missouri was were they all lived.They left St. Louis on May 14, 1804.