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==Expedition members==
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# Captain ] — private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson and leader of the Expedition.
# Lieutenant ] — shared command of the Expedition, although technically second in command.
# ] — Clark's enslaved black ].
# Sergeant ] — the Expedition's quartermaster; died early in the trip. He was the one person who died during the Expedition.
# Sergeant ] — chief carpenter, promoted to Sergeant after Floyd's death.
# Sergeant ] — responsible for issuing provisions, appointing guard duties, and keeping records for the Expedition.
# Sergeant ] — leader of the 1st Squad; he presided over the ] of privates John Collins and Hugh Hall.
# Corporal Richard Warfington — conducted the return party to St. Louis in 1805.
# Private John Boley — disciplined at ] and was assigned to the return party.
# Private William E. Bratton — served as hunter and blacksmith.
# Private John Collins — had frequent disciplinary problems; he was court-martialed for stealing whiskey which he had been assigned to guard.
# Private ] — charged with mutiny early in the trip, he later proved useful as a hunter; he earned his fame after the journey.
# Private ] — a one-eyed French fiddle-player and a skilled boatman.
# Private ]
# Private ] — a woodsman and skilled hunter, brother of Reubin.
# Private ] — a woodsman and skilled hunter, brother of Joseph.
# Private ] — kept a journal that was never published.
# Private ] — a fiddle-player and a good hunter; he served as an interpreter (probably via ]).
# Private Silas Goodrich — the main fisherman of the expedition.
# Private ] — court-martialed with John Collins for stealing whiskey.
# Private Thomas Proctor Howard — court-martialed for setting a "pernicious example" to the Indians by showing them that the wall at Fort Mandan was easily scaled.
# Private François Labiche — French fur trader who served as an interpreter and boatman.
# Private Hugh McNeal — the first white explorer to stand astride the headwaters of the Missouri River on the Continental Divide.
# Private ] — court-martialed and confined for "having uttered repeated expressions of a highly criminal and mutinous nature."
# Private John Potts — German immigrant and a miller.
# Private Moses B. Reed — attempted to desert in August 1804; convicted of desertion and expelled from the party.
# Private John Robertson — member of the Corps for a very short time.
# Private ] — was lost twice during the expedition, once for sixteen days. Youngest member of expedition at 19.
# Private ] — blacksmith, gunsmith, and a skilled carpenter; with John Colter, he was court-martialed for ].
# Private John B. Thompson — may have had some experience as a surveyor.
# Private Howard Tunn — hunter and navigator.
# Private Ebenezer Tuttle — may have been the man sent back on ], ]; otherwise, he was with the return party from Fort Mandan in 1805.
# Private ] — had some minor disciplinary problems at River Dubois; he was made a permanent member of the party.
# Private William Werner — convicted of being absent without leave at ], at the start of the expedition.
# Private Isaac White — may have been the man sent back on ], ]; otherwise, he was with the return party from Fort Mandan in 1805.
# Private Joseph Whitehouse — often acted as a tailor for the other men; he kept a journal which extended the Expedition narrative by almost five months.
# Private ] — blacksmith; assisted John Shields. He was convicted on ], ], of sleeping while on sentry duty and given one hundred lashes.
# Private ] — often assigned duty as a hunter.
# Interpreter ] — Sacagawea's husband; served as a translator and often as a cook.
# Interpreter ] — Charbonneau's wife; translated Shoshone to ] for Charbonneau and was a valued member of the expedition.
# ] — Charbonneau and Sacagawea's son, born ], ]; his presence helped dispel any notion that the expedition was a war party, smoothing the way in Indian lands.
# Interpreter ] — skilled with Indian sign language; the best hunter on the expedition.
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==In popular culture== ==In popular culture==

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Lewis and Clark

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back.

Earlier European exploration to the Pacific coast

While the Lewis and Clark expedition was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast, it was preceded over a decade earlier by a Canadian expedition led by explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie, whose expedition completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico by a person not of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, in July 1793.

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In popular culture

  • The episode "Margical History Tour" of the American TV series The Simpsons contains a fictional retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
  • The rescue ship in Science fiction/Horror film Event Horizon is named the Lewis and Clark.
  • The Comedy Almost Heroes starring Chris Farley and Matthew Perry features a fictional party attempting to best Lewis and Clark in their journey to the Pacific Ocean.
  • Often parodied in the comic strip The Far Side by Gary Larson.
  • The Histeria! episode "Great Heroes of France" had one segment called "Lewis and Clark", which had Clark's animation style and voice based on the Superman: The Animated Series version of Clark Kent. The sketch's name spoofed the TV-series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman which in turn spoofed the original naming of Lewis and Clark. In addition to this, Clark's voice was made to resemble Dean Martin, to match Lewis' portrayal as Jerry Lewis.
  • A song titled "Lewis and Clark" is found on The Mystery CD by Tommy Emmanuel.
  • In 1955 the movie The Far Horizons was released, starring Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis, Charlton Heston as William Clark, Donna Reed as Sacajawea, and Barbara Hale as Julia Hancock. The movie perpetuates the myth of a romantic relationship between Sacajawea and William Clark. The end has Sacajawea and Julia Hancock realizing they are both in love with the same man. Realizing she can never fit into white society, Sacajawea goes back to her people. The movie is based on Della Gould Emmons' novel "Sacajawea of the Shoshones" (Portland OR : Binfords and Mort, 1943).
  • In the 1988 movie National Lampoon's European Vacation, the Griswalds won the game show when, while deciding how to answer the question about the "Lewis and what Expedition", the wife addressed her husband by his first name, "Clark?"
  • The lead character in Robert Heinlein's space exploration classic science fiction novel Time for the Stars was posted on a ship called "The Lewis and Clark", or "Elsie" to the crew.
  • In Harry Turtledove's World War and Colonization Series, the American Space Station which later turned into Earth's first Spaceship was named "The Lewis and Clark."
  • Since the late 1990s, the Pacific Northwest regional air carrier Horizon Air, has been using radio advertisements that feature Meriweather Lewis (portrayed by actor Patrick Warburton) and William Clark (actor Richard Kind) as modern day travelers. The advertisements juxtapose the hardships faced by the Expedition as compared to the relative comfort and convenience of air travel. Lewis is portrayed as the calm leader, while Clark is often trying to upstage his partner and refers to “Clark and Lewis Expedition” on several occasions.
  • In the animated show Gary & Mike, Gary tries to follow the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by car, with continual interruptions and side-tracks by his friend, Mike.

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