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To the Pacific and Back

Lewis and Clark finally crossed the Plains and came to the Rocky Mountains today. Seeing the beautiful mountains brought joy yet concerns of how to cross and reach the Pacific. Luckily, they met Sacagawea`s brother; a Shoshoni tribe leader, to provide them with horses and a guide to leed them across the mountains. They left safely and followed the Columbia River to the border of Washington and Oregon, where it emptied out into the Pacific. Without Sacagawea, this tough journey would have been brutal.

Pikes Expedition

Lewis and Clark are traveling in the West today while Zebulon Pike, a young army officer was sent on a mission to find the starting point of the Red River. It runs through Louisiana and north Texas. His exploration also contains spying on Spanish outposts and forts in the Southwest. As dangerous as this journey seems, Pike is attempting to climb the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. When asked why he is not only trying to make history a couple times, but is willing to make a risk at making it, he said that once he climbs it, he is goint to name the peak, Pikes Peak.