29. Lewis & Clark
The project team makes an early investment to explore the domain and investigate its potential.
In 1803, the United States was made up of the few states that lay between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic seaboard. President Thomas Jefferson extended the country by buying territory from France—the Louisiana Purchase. The Purchase was known only by the description “the drainage of the Missouri River.” Nobody quite knew what that meant, including Jefferson. At the time, this was unknown country, inhabited only by the native nations and the occasional French trapper. To find out what he had bought on behalf of the United States, Jefferson ...
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