Unknown Horizons

This is the thrilling story of two men commissioned

by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the

unknown land of the Louisiana Purchase-the

vast, mysterious land from the Mississippi River

to the Pacifi c Ocean. In 1803 Meriwether Lewis

and William Clark gathered a crew of adventurous

men of strength and ability to form the Corps of

Discovery. Could they fi nd a waterway passage

through this unknown territory to the Pacific

Ocean? Each man knew the trip would be

hazardous, even life-threatening. How would

the native Indian tribes react to them? How were

they going to communicate with the Indians?

What kind of land formations and dangers were

waiting ahead? Captain Lewis said to assume the

trip would take two years, a long time to be gone

from home. They would claim the land as they

went, doubling the size of the new nation, the

United States of America.