5/28/2023 0 Comments Reunited colleen houckProgress was slow as the expedition made its way upstream, pushing against the current in a river swollen with spring runoff. The party of 33 (including Sacagawea and her infant son) traveled in six boats: three heavy dugouts they had made the previous September, with help from Nez Perce Indians in Idaho two sleek canoes purchased from the Chinooks on the lower Columbia and one canoe stolen from the Clatsops. The homeward journey began on March 23, 1806, when the explorers left their soggy winter headquarters at what they called Fort Clatsop, near present-day Astoria, Oregon, and began paddling up the Columbia River. From here, the explorers will continue east, ending their 8,000-mile "voyage of discovery" in St. On May 5, 1806, after taking an overland shortcut from present-day Wallula to the vicinity of Clarkston, the Lewis and Clark Expedition leaves the confines of what is now the state of Washington.
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