About Lewis and Clark Lewis was born 8 months after the Boston Tea Party. Meriwether Lewis’ unusual first name was his mother’s maiden name. At the time of the expedition, “nothing moved faster than the speed of a horse,” notes historian Stephen E. Ambrose. “No human being, no manufactured item, no bushel of wheat, no side of beef...and, as far as Jefferson’s contemporaries were able to tell, nothing ever would.” Lewis and Clark set out to explore the Western two-thirds of Nor
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