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On the recordFebruary 18, 1806
We entered the Missouri May 14, 1804, and on the 1st of November took up our winter quarters near the Mandan towns, 1,609 miles above the mouth of the river.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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