In the late summer of 1804, the Corps of Discovery — the Lewis and Clark expedition — pushed up the Missouri River carrying President Jefferson’s orders: find a route west, and tell every tribe they met that they now had a new “great father” in Washington. By late September the expedition reached the mouth of the Teton, or Bad, River — today’s Pierre, South Dakota — and ran straight into the Teton Sioux, the Lakota, who controlled river traffic and taxed every trader who came upstream...
Time Surfing: Graphic History.
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