For the Lewis & Clark Expedion, what type of people did they need in order to form it?

Question

I need some information for the Lewis & Clark Expedition. They needed many people to help them with the long journey. What kind of people did they need? What was going on, if you could just tell me a little brief paragraph of what happened and what kind of people they needed for the Lewis & Clark Expedition? Thank You :)

Answer 1

L and C set out on the Missouri with 14 soldiers who were experienced frontiersmen. They also had with them several French rivermen to handle the boat and navigate the river. Lewis also brought along his slave, York. Several of the soldiers were accomplished shooters, hunters, and trappers. A few of them were familiar with Native American languages and sign languages. All of the men had to be tough, resourceful, and disciplined. along the way of course the enlisted the help of several indian guides and translators, the most famous of whom was Sacagawea, a Shoshone who came along on the journey depite the fact that she had just given birth to a baby boy, who she brought along.

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Answer 2

Sacajawea, also spelled Sacagawea (1788-1812) was a Shoshone Indian who guided and acted as interpreter and negotiator for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their exploratory expedition. She traveled with them from North Dakota to the Oregon coast and back. Lewis and Clark met Sacajawea when thay were camped for the winter at Fort Mandan in North Dakota. As a young girl, Sacajawea had been kidnapped by the Hidatsa Indians, and she was later sold to the French-Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau - she became his wife. Charbonneau and his pregnant wife Sacajawea were hired to help guide the Lewis and Clark expedition. Sacajawea carried her newborn boy along on the journey. A golden Sacajawea dollar coin was introduced in the USA in 2000. William Clark documented Sacajawea's extensive contributions to the expedition, and he later cared for her son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (nicknamed "Pomp" or "Pompy"), at his home in St. Louis, Missouri. Sacajawea died at Fort Manuel, South Dakota, on December 20, 1812, soon after giving birth to a daughter called Lisette (although there is an alternate theory that she lived to be a very old woman, living on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming). After Sacajawea's death, William Clark adopted her two children, Jean Baptiste and Lisette.

Answer 3

They needed at least a guy named Lewis and another guy named Clark.

Answer 4

They needed tough outdoorsmen, not city slickers. People who could hunt, fish and build canoes and such. Hardy people!

Answer 5

They needed (and received) a lot of help from lots of friendly original inhabitants.

Answer 6

Hardy people with wanderlust

Answer 7

they needed people that could hunt