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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 11, 2013
Caption: The Objective of Your Mission...
Additional Description: (marker visible in distant background, beside trail on left)"The objective of your mission is to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean... may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent..."
from Thomas Jefferson's instructions to Meriwether Lewis, July 4, 1803
Submitted: May 9, 2014, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p272657
File Size: 3.309 Megabytes

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