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I am not sure that they can or would be called heroes. They found new plants, met native Americans, and charted unknown areas of the new lands, but they were not well known in their time.

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Cause some people knew about them as they passed and they know about their 2 year journey and his expedition the corp of discovery was known until 1806.

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They explored a new U.S. territory called the Louisiana Purchase Territory. It was considered dangerous to be in the wilderness for so long.

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