Captain Lewis Sighting the Yellowstone


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Captain Lewis Sighting the Yellowstone

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Oil on canvas by Charles Fritz

Meriwether Lewis, Thursday, April 25, 1805:

I ascended the hills from whence I had a most pleasing view of the country, particularly of the wide and fertile vallies formed by the missouri and the yellowstone rivers, which occasionally unmasked by the wood on their borders, disclose their meanderings for many miles in their passage through these delightfull tracts of country....

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