Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This is timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West in 1804-1805
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1804
- May 14 - Corps of Discovery leaves St. Charles, Missouri, beginning the voyage to the Pacific.
- May 25 - Expedition passes the small village of La Charette on Missouri. Floyd states in his journal that this is "the last settlement of whites on this river."
- July 4 - Marking the Independence Day, the expedition names Independence Creek on Mississippi.
- August 3 - Corps of Discovery hold the first official council between representatives of the United States and the Oto and Missouri Indians. They hand out peace medals, 15-star flags and other gifts, parade men and show off technology.
- August 20 - Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, the only member lost during the expedition.
- August 30 - A friendly council with Yankton Indians held. According to a legend, Lewis wraps a newborn baby in a United States flag and declares him "an American".
- September 7 - The whole expedition drowns a prairie dog out of its den to send back to Jefferson.
- September 25 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivison of the Lakota) demand one of the boats as a toll for moving further upriver.
- October 24 - Expedition reaches the earth-log villages of the Mandans and the Hidatsas. The captains decide to build Fort Mandan across the river from the main village.
- November 4 - The captains hire Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trapper living among the Hidatsas with his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea.
- December 24 - Fort Mandan is considered complete. Expedition moves in for the winter.
1805
1806
