Excerpt: Always the man of vision, ever living life as a learning experience, and in all ways attending to the details, Thomas Jefferson sought to prepare the Lewis and Clark Expedition with as complete a cartographical and geographical picture of western lands as possible. Jefferson had his own collection of maps, just as he had his own very substantial library, which he and Meriwether Lewis used to prepare Lewis for the path through poorly charted Louisiana Purchase lands.
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