Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

But I think what's cool in my book is you can get both versions and kind of lay them side by side.

Sure.

So let's – you could start it in Washington, D.C.

with like Thomas Jefferson's political stuff.

That's all new in my book too, but I'll try to keep it more entertaining.

So let's start near St.

Louis.

So spring of 1804, they leave near St.

Louis.

They go up the Missouri River.

They Jefferson thinks that the Missouri river and the Columbia river basically touch.

That was sort of the like default idea in this time period.

So the idea is they're going to go up the Missouri river, hop over this, a mountain or two, cause the Rockies aren't that much to deal with.

Then go down the Columbia river to the Pacific ocean.

And so they want to find this water route because it's good for traders, but it's also good.

Jefferson is already thinking about the future because Jefferson always thought about the future.

So he's thinking about like traders today, farmers tomorrow.

And so Lewis and Clark go up to Missouri in 1804.

They make their first winter quarters in what's now North Dakota at Fort Mandan.

And then in 1805, they keep going along the Missouri.

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