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The Lewis & Clark Story at Their Destination

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“Ocian in view! O! the joy.”
When Capt. William Clark wrote these words in his journal on November 7, 1805, he was not standing at the Pacific Ocean but the Columbia River estuary.  It would be another couple of weeks before he and Capt. Meriwether Lewis would stand at what they had “been so long anxious [...]