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The Lewis and Clark Expedition were assigned by the President of the
United States, Thomas Jefferson to explore the new territory of the
Louisiana Purchase that stretched to the Pacific Ocean. The mission of
the members was to map the territory, assess natural resources, and to
befriend inhabitants. Before photographic processes were developed,
documentation of historical events was often recorded in writing and with
such art forms as drawing and sketching. During their two-year
excursion, the men wrote extensively in journals and made occasional
drawings about people, wildlife and newly encountered botanical objects
to document their experiences.
Charles M. Russell, known for realistic renderings of life in the
nineteenth-century American West, made interpretations of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition a century after their travels were actually recorded.
Russell relied on both the narrative journal notations by the Corps of
Discovery and his experiential knowledge of native peoples as sources
for his depictions.
The multicultural entourage consisted of the two Captains, a force of
over forty Anglo soldiers, a French trader and his Shoshone wife, and a
Negro slave. Numerous encounters occurred with various native cultures
throughout their journey. The two years and four months of travel
initiated Westward Expansion and was a celebrated centennial event
during Russell's lifetime, influencing his interpretation of this subject..
The Lewis and Clark Expedition will again be remembered as a
bicentennial event in 2004 - 2006.
This unit will offer an opportunity to study selected visual images by
Russell and journal records of the Corps of Discovery to investigate
interpretations on how a multicultural group experienced cultural
encounters.
Cultural encounters are important life experiences to study because
students today are often part of a transient population or experience
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Martin, Rebecca. [Lewis and Clark expedition lesson plans], text, August 10, 2001; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1852863/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.