Lewis and Clark's stirring account of their historic expedition of adventure and discovery across America's great Northwest-from the text of their original journals.

THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY

"Those points of the Rocky Mountains were covered with snow, and the sun shone on it in such a manner as to give me a most plain and satisfactory view. 

Whilst I viewed those mountains, I felt a secret pleasure in finding myself so near the head of the-heretofore conceived-boundless Missouri. 

But when I reflected on the difficulties which this snowy barrier would most probably throw in my way to the Pacific Ocean, and the sufferings and hardships of myself and party in them, it in some measure counterbalanced the joy I had felt in the first moments in which I gazed on them.... (Clark, May 26, 1805)

In the spring of 1805, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, with a small band of men and a Shoshone squaw, set out on a voyage of exploration that was to earn them a place of undying honor in America's history. 

Countless storytellers since have retold the perilous saga of that great Northwest Expedition. 

But The Journals of Lewis and Clark remains the most immediate and vivid account of their momentous journey.