In the 14 burning of washington, d. C. Tonight, American History tour on westward expansion continues with a look at the lewis and clarke expedition from st. Louis to the pacific, and in covered wagons. Here is more now. We see them circling the wagons. Rarely if ever did that happen. There were very few deaths along the trail that had anything to do with thinly with indians. The indians actually helped the pioneers more than hurting them. But the dangers came in, first of all disease, which hit about 10 of the people west, and also things like drowning and accidental death by gunshot being run over by a wagon. That happened to a lot of kids who were climbing on the wagon and would fall off in the wheels the wheels would roll over them. It was really kind of an unprecedented mass migration. Were talking about over 300,000 people during methe period in question who passed up everything and went west. Watch the entire event tonight on cspan. Recent job look at numbers released for the mo