________________________The University of Montana President's Report 1999________________________ |
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The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river & such principal stream of it as, by it's course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregan, Colorado, or any other river may offer the most direct & practical water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce. Thomas Jefferson, 1803 |
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________________________The Discovery Continues________________________ |
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