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 * The [|Expedition] began its trip home 205 years ago today. The two-year mission to explore the land acquired in the [|Louisiana Purchase] and establish contact with the [|Native American] tribes of the [|Pacific Northwest] represented a watershed moment in the western expansion of the [|United States].



|| The expedition (1804-1806) was the first United States overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. ||