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Fast
Facts
- Monthly pay of privates in Corps of Discovery:$5
- Sergeants' monthly pay:$8
- Lt. William Clark's monthly pay:$30
- Capt. Meriwether Lewis' monthly pay:$40
- Total compensation granted Toussaint Charbonneau
for his horse, teepee and services:$500.33
- Amount paid to Sacagawea:$0
- Starting monthly pay of U.S. Army private today:$964.80
- Annual government salary of President Thomas
Jefferson:$25,000
- Amount Jefferson spent on food, wine and servants
in 1801:$12,200
- Annual salary of President George W. Bush:$400,000
(plus $50,000 expense allowance)
- Number of ways Clark spelled "Sioux" in his
journal:27
- Number of plant specimens in the Lewis and
Clark herbarium in Philadelphia:226
- New plant species first described by Lewis
and Clark:178
- Permanent members of Corps of Discovery reported
dead by 1828:16
- Number alive or whose fate was unknown:17
- Farthest west Jefferson ever traveled from
Monticello:70 miles
Sources:
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation; Department of
Defense; "Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists" by Paul
Russell Cutright; "Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis,
Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West,"
by Stephen Ambrose; "Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains:
Exploring the West from Monticello," by Donald Jackson.
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