Lewis & Clark's Expedition Was Way More Messed-Up Than You Think

Watch this video to see why Lewis and Clark's Expedition was way more messed-up than you think.

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Multiple objectives | 00:17
Punishment for disobedience | 1:09
Dining on horse and dog meat | 2:00
Curing disease with mercury | 3:04
Tension among the Native peoples |4:10
Spain's attempt to intercept | 5:06
Threat of venereal disease | 6:08
A conflict that resulted in death | 7:04
An age of expansion | 8:08
Eventual freedom |9:11
The mystery of Sacagawea’s death | 10:16
Meriwether Lewis’ death | 11:31

[GrungeHQ]

How do you think you would do on an expedition that was like Lewis and Clark's?

[virtualtitus]

My favorite nugget: When Lewis and Clark attempted to punish a pvt. Newman with lashes while amongst the Arikara tribe, the tribe became extremely upset then crying. The chief sternly told the expedition that tribe didn't hit members of their own tribe, adults or children.

[surferdude]

I live in Oregon. I went to Lewis and Clark College in Portland. I’ve been to all their sites including Fort Clatsop on the coast ( where they were waiting for a supply ship that never came), and the salt cairns in Seaside, Oregon where they made salt from sea water. The men of this expedition were studs. Paddling the Columbia River both upstream and down, crossing the Cascade and Rocky Mountain ranges took incredible strength and endurance.

[kermitefrog]

From various historical writing that I've read it was an adventure of a nature that it makes you wonder how they ever made it.

[TheBurninator]

"They found Meriwether Lewis with nineteen stab wounds all over his back.

Worst case of suicide they ever saw."

[davidleer]

Wish you would talk about the creatures and other things that Lewis and Clark saw. They actually wrote about these things..

[philipbuckler]

Can you imagine coming over a hill and seeing 20, 000 Buffaloe or Elk?

[Kcg]

Undaunted courage by Stephen Ambrose is a tremendous book that details everything ab the men and the expedition

[jean-luceyesofyoureyes]

"They informed the Native people that they were living on land that now belonged to the United States." Imagine how ludicrous that must've sounded to these Natives.
who had been there for untold generations.

[ouagadougou]

Before Lewis and Clark, there was, Alexander Mackenzie, he went all the way to the Beaufort Sea and after that to the West Coast to what is now Bella Coola BC. He was funded by the North West fur company that later merged with the Hudson Bay fur company, that still exists to this day. His expedition was the inspiration for Lewis and Clark. Both were looking for a passage west. Not well known either was that much of the land explored by Lewis and Clark was already explored by Canadians, French Canadians. Unlike Lewis and Clark, their objectives were different they were looking for fur. Most of them took native wives along the way so they had much better relations with native tribes. It's despicable how both the US and the British and now Canada have treated native people, it was mostly a lot of broken promises to take control over them.

[MrPh]

And the Girandoni air rifle was also with them on the expedition also, first repeater magazine fed rifle to travel across the US.

[dartdom]

While mostly true, this is sensationalized, and often the events are taken out of context in order to illicit outrage from a modern audience.
Viewers should read or watch the full story of the expedition, based on Lewis' and Clark's journals, in order to put things in perspective.

[jamalvargas]

I Found out about Lewis and Clark from Kids WB's Histeria back in the late 90's where Clark was Clark Kent from Superman TAS

[rayvenheath]

I live in the town Sgt Floyd died in. We have some cool museums about the expedition.

[bernardblack]

Leslie Knope wouldn't approve of this recollection. Pawnee is a wholesome place

[ebogar]

You should do a video on my 5th great grandfather Peter Wright. He was also an explorer and pioneer and made trails into areas in the Appalachians never explored before, and a hundred years before Louis and Clark. Peters Mountain in Va is named after him because he made trails across the entire mountain. It was about 60 miles. There are things on the internet about him too. Look up Peter Wright Alleghany County VA. He had a very interesting life and descends from a noble family who also was throughout history. There are famous Wrights we all know too, and come from the same family. He settled the area I grew up in and died there a wealthy man and had started a whole community. He also built Fort Young on his property and was the leader of the community like most of his ancestors before him. His Father and his Grandfather did a lot of things in Oyster Bay, NY as Quakers. The Wright sisters of Oyster Bay are also in history for the Mary Dyer trial. They spent their life protesting after her death and were banned from Boston. They were almost killed themselves. I believe they were his aunts.

[MilwJay]

you left out the highly signifigant part of lewis's story which is that lewis was addicted to opium, which would cause all the sorts of symptoms, problems and wild behaviors he had at the end of his life

[smokejaguar]

... I heard it gets much worse when they reach the Event Horizon, orbiting Neptune.

[robertknowles]

Sacagaweah had children? A lady in Chiefland, Florida, kind, tall, friendly, and strong, said she is descended from this hearty Indian.

[colsc]

William Clark is my 6th cousin. Joseph and reusing Field are also my relatives, trappers on the expedition