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- Meriwether Lewis: [looking across the river] There we shall be met with vast riches and glory untold.
- William Clark: The most beautiful sight we've seen, Meriwether. The end.
- Meriwether Lewis: The end of the beginning. No, sir. Our journey's just begun.
- Title Card: In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery across North America.
- Title Card: The expedition mapped the lands of the Louisiana Purchase and reached the Pacific Ocean.
- Title Card: Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis in September of 1806.
- Title Card: "About 3 o'clock in the night he did the deed which plunged his friends in affliction and deprived his country of one of her most valued citizens." Thomas Jefferson, regarding Meriwether Lewis, written August 18th, 1813.
- Title Card: It would have been Meriwether Lewis's 39th birthday.