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1. luap03 is going to create an adventure story about Lewis and Clark’s Expedition that:

2. My adventure story will solve the following problem:

How Lewis and Clark catch praire dogs,grizzle bears, grey wolves

3. My audience will experience my story through the eyes of: Lewis (tayzo) and Clark (lexx2816)

4. My adventure story will have the following common characteristics of an adventure story:

funny, exciting, sad, and emotional

5. My adventure story will have the following key historical events:

Lewis and Clark's struggle to catch those animals and send back the skins

6. My adventure story will have the following key historical characters:

Lewis and Clark

7. My adventure story will have the following key historically important concrete objects:

food and shelter

8. My adventure story will make the audience feel the following emotions:

9. My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following primary sources:

10. My adventure story will be credible because I will support it with the following secondary sources:

11. I will engage my audience by doing the following (this is something I have never done before):

Hand this paper in after your presentation with your grade on the reverse side. Please support your decision with evidence from the week of research and week of preparation.

All Secondary Informaton on Prairie Dogs: Clark caught one by pouring water into its tunnel. Lewis dug ten feet down into a burrow but still didn't reach the bottom. The explorers made the first scientific observations of the prairie dogs, which they called "barking squirrels." They noted the animals as they first entered South Dakota and commented on their behavior, from the warning cries that were like those of "little toy dogs"

Information on Gray Wolf: As they headed to the Platte River, passing big bluestem meadows and cottonwoods along the riverbanks, brothers Rueben and Joseph Field captured a wolf cub. They tied it up, planning to make it a pet. It turned out to be easier to catch a wolf than to keep one. It quickly gnawed its way free and scampered back into the wild. Lewis and Clark called the gray wolf the "large wolf"

Information on Grizzly Bear: During the winter of 1804-1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition learned from the Indians to call it the //white// bear, but among the specimens Lewis sent back to St. Louis from Fort Mandan in the spring of 1805 was "the Skin of a yellow Bear which I obtained from the Scious [Sioux Indians]." Later Lewis changed his mind in mid-sentence, calling it the "brown bear White bear." Sergeant Ordway observed that the first one Captain Lewis killed was "a Whiteish bair what is called the white bair, but not white but light collour." Of the same bear, Sergeant Gass reported: "The natives call them white, but they are more of a brown grey." Ordway later noted one that was "silver grey."
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Clark was the first to invoke the name we now use. On May 5, 1805, he saw "a Brown or Grisley beare," which he and Drouilliard killed.

On the 13th of June, Lewis drew a tentative conclusion from his observations: ||
 * I am induced to believe that the Brown, the white and the Grizly bear of this country are the same species, only differing in color from age or more properly from the same natural cause that many other anamals of the same family differ in colour, one of those which we killed yesterday was of a cream colored white while the other in company with it was of the common bey or redish brown. &the grizly bear we have never yet seen. &I am preswaded if there is any difference between this species and the brown or white bear it is very inconsiderable. ||

The following year, on May 14, 1806, he hedged a bit:


 * perhaps it would not be unappropriate to designate them the variagated bear. ||

The bear we now call "grizzly" has many other names that reflect the backgrounds, attitudes, and experiences of the namers. Among the 87 common names listed by Gary Brown in //The Great Bear Almanac// (New York: Lyons and Burford, 1993), are bruin ("brown"), chief's son (Cree Indians), eldest brother (many Native Americans), evil genius, great bear, king of the plains, matohota (Sioux Indians), Moccasin Joe (early frontiersmen), and silvertip. ||

=Question= How did Lewis and Clark kill the animals?
 * //Answer _They killed them with guns,drowning techniques, and by chasing them until they could catch the animal//**

Detail 1: Lewis and Clark kill and caught the prairie dogs by first dumping buckets of water into their underground homes. Then they began to dig a 10 foot hole and still didnt reach the bottom of the burrow. When they finally got one they sent one back alive so the people could see it.

Detail 2: As they were walking into Montana Lewis and Clark spotted bear tracks. They were nervous as they followed scared of the bear but when they saw it they shot it and killed it. Lewis and Clark easily caught the wolf by just tying a cub up to a rope. They keeping it as a pet like a dog but it bit its way through the rope and got free. Lewis and Clark said it was easier to catch the wolf than keeping it.

Detail 3: As they were catching the grizzly bear Lewis got charged at by the bear and got chased into the Missouri River. After Lewis and Clark killed the grizzly bear Clark. almost got bit by a rattlesnake

Detail 4 After they killed all of the animals they sent them back to Thomas Jefferson.

=__**Question**__= Where did they find the animals? What was their natural habitat?
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Detail 1They found "burrowing dogs" that were found on the prairies but are knwon as badgers now.

Detail 2 When passing through was it today known as eastern montana in the summer of 1805, they caught a glimpse of a grizzly that they heard rumors about from indians

Detail 3 They spotted the pronghorn( closely related to the goat) in present day Great Falls, Montana and wrote of them for following them for many miles.

Detail 4 While camping near Idaho's Lemhi river with the Shoshone Indians they found the Clark's nutcracker, a type of bird that hoards whitebark pine nuts.

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=**Question** _= How did Lewis and Clark conquer the land which the animals were? //**Answer _**//

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=__**Question**__ _= What tools did they use to kill the animals?
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200 Years Later

(City with cars driving by Lewis and Clark walking to the White House)

Lewis: Look what we helped to create,the land that were searched looks like this now where we bought the Louisiana Purchase.

Clark: Yes, we now have buildings roads cars and still a lot of the same animals but the animals are not spread out and there are less, and they dont come near humans as easily. 200 years ago there would be indian tribes and you would see animals running around.

Lewis: During our expedition we did find a lot of information about Indian tribes and animals.

Clark: When we the killed animals we would skin it and then send the skin back to Thomas Jefferson. We took notes on how the animals acted and if the indians were friendly. It was a good idea to send us but we could have waited to leave if we really wanted to. It was good that Lewis and I were smart brave people with a group of other people also.

Lewis: If we didnt find out whether or not the tribes were peaceful then someone might of gone into one of the tribes and tried to start a war.

(Lewis and Clark fighting indians)

Clark: They could have gone to all the different tribes and tell them we want to have a war. If we had a war with all the indian tribes we could have lost many more people and it would not have been worth it.

Lewis: Yea, the indians were good fighters because they were very sly in war and hard to kill. The reason why it was good we killed the animals was because we wanted to find out what animals were vicious or poisonious or just out there to kill you.

(Someone getting bit by a snake)

Clark: If we didnt find that out then a group of people could claim some land out there and see an animal that they think looked harmless and end up getting killed. That was a brave move on our part, we probably saved peoples lives.

Nar: With walking the land that Thomas Jefferson bought from the Louisiana Purchase we have much more information and we can now say that we own the land. Lewis and Clark talked to the indians and either beat them in war or signed a peace treaty. Lewis and Clark found an indian that could a lot of indian languages.Most of indians knew that either Lewis and Clark own the land and some respected that and some didnt. It is obvious that they did conquer the land because you dont see indians tribes walking around and we take up a lot of room that used to be taken up. It is either taken up by streets cars farms buildings houses and people.