"When Thomas Jefferson sent a team of explorers to discover a way to the
Pacific Ocean two hundred years ago, the western border of the United
States was the Mississippi River. It was Jefferson's dream to uncover
the mysteries of the distant lands beyond. In 1803, the president sent a
team of thirty men, lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, up the
Missouri River, across the Rocky Mountains, down the Columbia River to
the Pacific, and back home again. During this monumental, two-and-a-half