![]() The return voyage began on March 23, 1806, at Fort Clatsop, Oregon, and ended on September 23 of the same year. The expedition crossed the Continental Divide of the Americas near the Lemhi Pass, eventually coming to the Columbia River, and the Pacific Ocean in 1805. Charles, Missouri, then went up the Missouri River. Clark and 30 members set out from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood), Illinois, on May 14, 1804, met Lewis and ten other members of the group in St. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. ![]() The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis, Clark, and 40 menġ - Charles Floyd, August 1804 near Sioux City, Iowa ![]()
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