From here to there: The lessons of Lewis and Clark
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The historic trek of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began with a trip to Philadelphia.
Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began the legendary trail, Inquirer staff photographer Tom Gralish followed. These images first published in The Inquirer in 2003.
Lewis served as Jefferson's personal secretary before the president asked him to explore the Louisiana Purchase. A year before the 1804-06 Corps of Discovery, Jefferson sent Lewis to the intellectual, medical, scientific, and trading center of the new country - Philadelphia - for training and supplies for the expedition.