Lewis & Clark Trail									Lewis spent many hours in Thomas Jefferson's library studying botany and other sciences. Armed with these skills, he described an amazing amount of new plants on the trek west. Agency Creek flows west through the campground. The Lehmi Shoshone winter camp was in this area for centuries before the Corps arrived. The Corps crossed the creek, to the northwest, farther up the canyon.
Meriwether Lewis spent many hours in Thomas Jefferson's library studying botany as well as other sciences. The descriptions, far right, match the Latin named species, above. Top; Mock Orange. Middle left; Lewis's Monkey Flower. Middle right; White Stem Northern Black Gooseberry. Bottom left; Rocky Mountain Maple. Bottom right; Common Snowberry.
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