A Botanical Voyage: Meriwether Lewis,Seaman, and the Louisiana Purchase

Captain Meriwether Lewis

This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. On this verdant day – May 2nd – in 1803, the United States, a fledgling nation, expanded its borders significantly when  Napoleon ceded the vast Louisiana Territory to the Americans for a mere…

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