Last updated: March 6, 2019
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Early Report on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

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This report included information from several other expeditions executed by Mr. Jefferson in 1804-05 – one along the Red River and another up the Washita.
The news he included about the Corps of Discovery would have come from the information Captain Lewis sent back from Fort Mandan on the returning keelboat, which departed on April 7, 1805 and reached Jefferson on July 13.