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Recognition 
his map, compiled in 1803 by Nicholas King from the most reliable current knowledge about the Northwest, showed the Rocky Mountains that Lewis and Clark expected to encounter as they started up the Missouri River in May of 1804. By the time they left Fort Mandan a year later they had quite a different picture of the Rockies.© 2009 by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Washburn, North Dakota.
Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001)