![]() ![]() They chose interpreters and French oarsmen who knew the country better than they. They selected soldiers that had demonstrated bravery in battle. When Meriwether Lewis invited Clark, his army buddy and an accomplished soldier and outdoorsman, to accompany him on a journey across the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase Territory in 1803, the two conferred at length about the men that would accompany them on what would be called the Corps of Discovery. Clark was the white son of a prominent southern farmer, and York was a black, enslaved laborer. Though he had grown up side-by-side with William Clark-future leader of the first-known expedition to travel over land from the Eastern seaboard to the Pacific Ocean-the two were not equals. Then again, York didn’t have a say in the matter. It wasn’t York’s choice to join the expedition.
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