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On Thursday. June 13, 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis came upon what he described on his journal as a "....sublimely grand spectacle..." "He had arrived at the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
The previous winter, Mandan Indian Chiefs had told the Corps of Discovery that the party would encounter falls on the river.
However, Lewis soon found for more four more falls upstream from the Great Falls, How were they going to get past these obstacles? For the next three weeks the men portaged their boats and equipment eighteen miles overland around the falls. This portage was the MOST grueling stretch of the journey tha the expedition has faces so far.
The previous winter, Mandan Indian Chiefs had told the Corps of Discovery that the party would encounter falls on the river.
However, Lewis soon found for more four more falls upstream from the Great Falls, How were they going to get past these obstacles? For the next three weeks the men portaged their boats and equipment eighteen miles overland around the falls. This portage was the MOST grueling stretch of the journey tha the expedition has faces so far.