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Lewis and Clarks Expedition
The louis and clark expedition was sent by Spain to stop them from reaching the pacific northwest. The spanish had no idea where the expedition was and knew they could spend weeks hunting for it without success. They turned back not realizing they were only two days away from catching up with a slow moving american expedition. While the spanish headed back to san tafay louis andClark pushed on into teton territory. On september 23rd they made their first contact Two days later the teton chiefs and a large band of warriors arrived at the core discoveries camp in what's now pere south dakota. But as they left one of the chiefs warned the
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