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Article: JEFFERSON'S WEST WHEN LEWIS AND CLARK SET OFF TO EXPLORE AMERICA, THOMAS JEFFERSON TRAVELED WITH THEM IN SPIRIT. THIS WEEK, THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY NATIONWIDE BICENTENNIAL LAUCHES FROM MONTICELLO.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2003
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Byline: ROBERTA T. VOWELL THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Thomas Jefferson dreamed of The West.
``A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,'' he proclaimed in his first inaugural address, March 4, 1801, ``advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye.''
Jefferson never made it to that fruitful land. The farthest he ventured into the American West was Bath County. That would be Virginia, near Staunton, right in the shadow of his own Appalachian Mountains.
He did the next best thing.
Jefferson assembled a crew - a Corps of Discovery, as he christened it - and sent those men into the wilderness, on a journey that ...