Lewis and Clark | Into the Wild | 1

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a westward journey that would transform America. Their mission was to head up the Missouri River and find a route through the uncharted west to the Pacific Ocean. The journey was full of risk. But no danger loomed larger in their minds than the Sioux – the powerful Native American confederacy of the plains. And it wouldn't be long before the two crossed paths.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:09.6	Imagine it's August 1804 and you're walking across a vast pancake flat grassland, somewhere
0:25.0	in the middle of North America.
0:27.0	The sun is beating down and the hot wind blasts your face.
0:30.7	Ahead of you, Captain's merry weather Lewis and William Clark stride toward the only
0:35.2	hill that's visible for miles.
0:37.6	They are the leaders of this expedition, but you wouldn't know it to look at them.
0:41.9	Wearing boxkin pants and white linen frocks, they look just like you.
0:46.5	The only hint of their seniority are the round, cuckade ribbons on their black felt hats.
0:51.8	It's been three months since you and the rest of the core of discovery set out on the
0:55.2	Missouri River on a mission to explore uncharted US territory and reach the Pacific.
1:00.9	But right now, the expedition is investigating a strange piece of information it learned
1:05.2	from local native tribes.
1:07.8	You look at the lonely hill ahead.
1:09.4	There's something eerie about its isolation and the mass of birds that swarm around it.
1:14.3	You pick up the pace to draw level with Captain Clark.
1:18.0	Captain?
1:19.0	Yes, Sergeant.
1:20.0	You think it's true what the Indian said?
1:22.2	Tiny men with big heads live on this mound and kill all trespassers?
1:26.4	Clark shoots you a withering look.
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