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The end of the line

By Jim Caple
Page 2

Friday, July 2, 2004

FORT CLATSOP, Ore. -- Lewis and Clark hated it here. After traveling 4,000 miles by boat, on foot, on horseback and by canoe, after following the great Missouri River to its source and nearly starving while crossing the Rockies, the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery finally reached the Pacific. "Ocian in view!'' William Clark famously wrote. "O! the joy!'' The excitement didn't last. The expedition built a small fort near present-day Astoria; and of the 105 days spent there before the return ...

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