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Descripción: National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution.
«At the time of the expedition, the United States of America had just acquired from France a vast area of the North American interior. Called the Louisiana Purchase, this area included much of what are now the 15 states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his supporters wanted to learn more about this new area of the country, its waterways, its inhabitants, its natural resources, and its possibilities for settlement by Americans. One of the chief purposes of the Corps of Discovery expedition was to map the new Northwest territory, to fill in the empty spaces on the maps of the time.»