Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
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They find out the Rocky Mountains are the Rocky Mountains.
And so they get through that, go down the tributaries and the Columbia River and get to the Pacific Ocean, spend another winter there on the Pacific Coast.
And then in the last year, 1806, come back to St.
Louis and then to Washington.
Okay.
8,000 miles.
People love to bring up the Louisiana Purchase, and it does become important.
But Jefferson had been working on the expedition way before the Louisiana Purchase.
Is that right?
He would have gone and done it anyway.
He was trying to do it in 1783.
He asked William Clark's older brother, George Rogers Clark, to lead this expedition.
That guy was a badass.
He was.
He was, but he would not do it because he thought he's like, America screwed me over.
They haven't paid me enough for all the fighting I did, so no, I'm not leading your expedition.
So 30 years later, Jefferson...
Works it out with Lewis.
Lewis brings on George Rogers' baby brother, William.
But yeah, Jefferson was always thinking about land.
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