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Ep. 07: Jefferson’s "Other" Lewis & Clark

Ep. 07: Jefferson’s "Other" Lewis & Clark

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Despite Lewis and Clark’s singular fame, Thomas Jefferson never
intended their expedition to be the sole U.S. scientific
exploration into the country’s new Louisiana Purchase. Just as
compelling to him was a second major expedition into the southern
reaches of Louisiana, for which he chose two leaders – Thomas
Freeman and Peter Custis – who had a similar opportunity to
become famous early American explorers into the West. Dispatched
up the Red River of the South in 1806 with a bigger party and
twice the congressional appropriation of Lewis and Clark, Freeman
and Custis suffered a very different fate, one that assigned them
to the dustbin of American history and made Jefferson’s “Grand
Expedition” a forgotten western story.

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