Bryan Pettit

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Gallatin had a special map made up for Lewis showing North America from the Pacific Coast to the Mississippi, with details on what was known of the Missouri River up to the Mandan villages in the Great Bend of the river (today’s Bismarck, North Dakota), and a few wild guesses as to what the Rockies might look like and the course of the Columbia.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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