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The Ark-Mo Geocachers have been on a 2-1/2 year quest.

 

Following in the footstep’s of Lewis & Clark.

 

It all began at the GATHERING EVENT.GCC633.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...51-7af4356e2113

 

From there we went to the STONE EVENT.GCD28A.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...81-91e2a8dbb651

 

The next event was a Special one for us, we were asked by the N.G.S. (National Geodetic Survey) to sponsor the Lewis and Clark Signature Disc dedications across Missouri and beyond through http://www.Geocaching.com

 

The 1st Signature event was in St Louis, Missouri. A BENCHMARK EVENT.GCHNRJ.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...f2-7a0d874017ad

 

The 2nd Event and Disc dedication was in Wood River, Illinois. EXPEDITION DEPARTURE DAY.GCJ47Y.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...53-e9f18298121a

 

The 3rd and carries on to the 4th and 5th are done through this one event that we just kept moving.

 

EXPEDITION FACES WEST PREPARATIN COMPLETE.GCJ64A.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...20-0403943929a1

 

From the last event we sponsored at 4-th of July Creek, Kansas we did not do event pages but did the geocaches all the way to Yellowstone and to the Signature below.

 

We then headed back to Missouri.

Our adventure still continues there will be an event in March at St Louis to commemorate the end of the Journey.

We will also complete the rest of the Journey from Yellowstone to Cape Disappointment (2005-2006) before the 2-1/2 years.

Some of the coins will be with us the entire length of the Journey then.

Other coins have already been.

 

July 25 1805-2005

Having reached the Yellowstone (with some guiding assistance from Sacagawea), Clark’s group has re-entered the Great Plains, built two dugouts, been stopped on the river by a huge buffalo herd, and now comes to a sandstone outcropping east of present-day Billings, Montana. He names it Pompey’s Tower, in honor of Sacagawea’s son, nicknamed Little Pomp. And on the rock face, Clark inscribes his name and the date – the only physical evidence the Corps of Discovery left on the landscape that survives to this day.

 

July 26/27

Heading back toward the Missouri, Lewis sees eight Blackfeet warriors. They camp together warily, but the morning of the 27th the explorers catch the Blackfeet trying to steal their horses and guns. In the fight that follows, two Blackfeet are killed – the only act of bloodshed during the entire expedition. Lewis leaves a peace medal around the neck of one of the corpses “that they might be informed who we were.” The explorers gallop away, riding for 24 straight hours, meet the group with the canoes on the Missouri, and paddle off toward the rendezvous with Clark.

August 12

Downstream from the mouth of the Yellowstone, the entire expedition is finally reunited.

 

Mandan Lodge

 

August 14

They arrive back at the Mandan villages. John Colter is given permission to leave the expedition and return to the Yellowstone to trap beaver (and become one of the first American “mountain men”). The captains say good-bye to Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Baptiste.

 

September

Speeding home with the Missouri’s current, they cover up to 70 miles a day, often not even stopping to hunt in order to get back sooner. They exchange harsh words with the Teton Sioux chief, Black Buffalo; pay their respects at the grave of Charles Floyd, their only casualty; and begin meeting boat after boat of American traders already heading upriver into this newest section of the nation.

 

September 20

The men see a cow on the shore and raise a cheer at the sign that they are finally returning to the settlements; that day they reach La Charette.

September 23 1806-2006

Their last day as the Corps of Discovery. They reach St. Louis. Having been gone nearly two and a half years, they had been given up for dead by the citizens, who greet the explorers enthusiastically. “Now,” young John Ordway writes, “we intend to return to our native homes to see our parents once more, as we have been so long from them.”

 

Fall 1806-2006

The captains are national heroes; as they travel to Washington, D.C., balls and galas are held in the towns they pass through. In the capitol, one senator tells Lewis it’s as if he had just returned from the moon. The men get double pay and 320 acres of land as rewards; the captains get 1,600 acres. Lewis is named governor of the Louisiana Territory; Clark is made Indian agent for the West and brigadier general of the territory’s militia.

 

Also see the point of beginning (P.O.B.). for the Corps of Discovery and ARK-MO GEOCACHERS.

CORPS OF DISCOVERY 200TH ANNIVERSARY.GCH2X2.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...36-b983d08c0702

 

This is just a skiff of the details and History of our group and the reason behind minting the geocoin.

 

It will be our Commemorative to the Lewis and Clark journey as well as ours.

We would like to extend the opportunity for you to be a part of this as well.

It will never happen again.

 

Thanks for reading this far.

If you would like more of the History of our group, geocoin and adventures contact me.

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