The Untold Truth Of The Slave Who Helped The Lewis And Clark Expedition Nathan Howard/Getty Images
By Sarah Crocker/March 5, 2021 1:23 am EDT
Most U.S. students have at least heard of the Lewis and Clark expedition. As History reports, the expedition in question took place from 1804 to 1806. President Thomas Jefferson had just completed the Louisiana Purchase, buying the previously French Louisiana Territory from none other than Napoleon Bonaparte and the government of France for a cool $15 million. The deal doubled the size of the United States, which was then barely out of its cradle, as far as nations go.