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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Lewis and Clark Author: Samuel Willard Compton Narrator: Tony Craine Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins Language: English Release date: 11-15-10 Publisher: University Press Audiobooks Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: Lewis and Clark is an informative introduction to the famous expedition. Personally selected by President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Meriwether Lewis was assigned to lead an expedition to the West, where the United States had just completed the Louisiana Purchase land transaction with France. Lewis selected William Clark to accompany him, and as leaders of the Corps of Discovery, the men became the first to find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean, the first to travel on the Missouri River in the future state of Montana, the first to cross the Continental Divide south of Canada, and the first white men to make direct contact with the Shoshone,