Lewis and Clark | The Long Way Home | 3
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The Chinooks and the Columbia Expedition
After almost five months on the pacific coast, the corps of discovery piled their remaining supplies into their canoes and began paddling back up the columbia. As they travelled upr they re encountered some of the same chinook tribes that had harassed them on their way down river. Day after day, the chinooks brazenly helped themselves to the expedition supplies. Anything left unguarded was at risk of disappearing. But lewis wanted turn east in a blaze of glory, rather than with a message of disappointment.
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