Lewis & Clark Mapped It -- Then the Nation Remade the West
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401841_pf.html
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 5, 2005; A01
PILLAR ROCK, Wash. -- Ocian in view! O! the joy.
William Clark, who scribbled these words in his field journal on Nov.
7, 1805, was not a man to get carried away with exclamation points. He
was a woodsman, a waterman and a sober-minded maker of maps.
Yet, if ever there were a time and a place for extravagant punctuation,
it was here 200 years ago where the Columbia abruptly widens to embrace
the Pacific. Having crossed the continent as co-leader of the most
important road trip in American history, Clark believed he could
finally see and hear the ocean (he was mistaken; it was about 18 miles
away).
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