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Role In Lewis and Clark Expedition

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William Clark
William Clark
American explorer
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
American explorer
United States postage stamp featuring Sacagawea in traditional Shoshone dress with two braids, holding a staff, against a sky with clouds. The stamp value reads 29 USA.
Sacagawea
Shoshone interpreter
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Martin E. Johnson
American adventurer and photographer
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Thomas Walker
American physician
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Nathaniel P. Langford
American explorer and conservationist
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, detail of a portrait by Sir Hubert von Herkomer; in the City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
Henry Morton Stanley
British American explorer
Richard E. Byrd stands on a ship deck in heavy fur clothing and a leather cap, holding a sundial compass during an Antarctic expedition.
Richard E. Byrd
American explorer
Frémont, John C.
John C. Frémont
American explorer, military officer, and politician
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
The Resurrection of Henry “Box” Brown at Philadelphia
Henry Box Brown
American public speaker and entertainer
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Christopher McCandless
American adventurer
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia
American botanist
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Sally Hemings
American enslaved person
Carson, Kit
Kit Carson
American frontiersman
Portrait of American Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary wearing a double-breasted military uniform with decorative buttons and shoulder epaulets.
Robert Peary
American explorer
Nat Turner
Nat Turner
American enslaved person
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Gene Savoy
American explorer and religious leader
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth
American explorer