01 August 2013

Happy birthday, Clark.

Charles Willson Peale, William Clark, 1810


William Clark was born on this date in 1770.

May 13, 1804
Boats and everything Complete, with the necessary stores of provisions & such articles of merchandize as we thought ourselves authorised to procure -- tho' not as much as I think nessy. for the multitude of Inds. thro which we must pass on our road across the Continent &c. &c.

May 14, 1804
All the preparations being completed, we left our encampment ...

CONNECT

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