 | George Brown Goode - 1890 - 124 pagina’s
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific Ocean. Congress approved the proposition... | |
 | William Terrell Lewis - 1893 - 472 pagina’s
...exciting alarm among the Indians. This did not deter him, but the proposal did not succeed. "In 1803 Congress approved the proposition and voted a sum...with me as private secretary, immediately renewed his solicitations to have the direction of the party. I had now had opportunity of knowing him intimately.... | |
 | William Rheem Lighton - 1901 - 176 pagina’s
...Indians of the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the...with me as private secretary, immediately renewed his solicitations to have the direction of the party." Naturally, Mr. Jefferson was strongly inclined to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 516 pagina’s
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source: to cross the...it into execution. Captain Lewis. who had then been nearly two years with me as private secretary, immediately renewed his solicitations to have the direction... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1902 - 574 pagina’s
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the...with me as private secretary, immediately renewed his solicitations to have the direction of the party. I had now had opportunities of knowing him intimately.... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - 1902 - 440 pagina’s
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the Highlands, and follow the best water-communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. Congress approved the proposition,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - 1903 - 580 pagina’s
...Indians on the Missouri. In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the...with me as private secretary, immediately renewed his solicitations to have the direction of the party. I had now had opportunities of knowing him intimately.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 582 pagina’s
...message, the sending of an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands, to follow the best water communication which offered...carrying it into execution. Captain Lewis, who had been with Jefferson nearly two years as private secretary, immediately renewed his request to have... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 594 pagina’s
...message, the sending of an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands, to follow the best water communication which offered...carrying it into execution. Captain Lewis, who had been with Jefferson nearly two years as private secretary, immediately renewed his request to have... | |
 | Curtis Manning Geer - 1904 - 646 pagina’s
...on the Missouri. As a preparation for this, the message recommended that an exploring party be sent to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the Highlands, and then go down one of the rivers to the Pacific. It was regarded as a matter of great importance to find... | |
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In order to prepare the way, the message proposed the sending an exploring party to trace the Missouri to its source, to cross the highlands and follow the best water communication which offered itself from thence to the Pacific ocean. 
