Thomas Jefferson actually said...

The examination of the Red River itself is but now commencing.

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 mo...

Although nothing forbids the substance of these letters from being communicated without reserve, yet so many ill effects proceed from the pu...

I am not informed whether the positions ceded are the best which can be taken for securing their respective objects.