Page:Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition (1905).djvu/11

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
Pompey’s
Pillar from
the south, as
seen from trains
on Northern Pacific
Railway, at
Pompey’s Pillar Station.
The keystone of this arch of discovery and occupation was the Lewis and Clark exploration. It ranks to-day as the greatest exploration ever made by any country. It was a most dramatic and wonderful achievement, and the more it is pondered and studied the greater it becomes. That such a complete, harmonious, successful exploration and one so lacking in fatalities was possible 100 years ago, only twenty odd years after the surrender of Yorktown, is a matter for amazement, and it challenges our greatest respect and admiration for the noble corps of explorers who accomplished such magnificent results. It is fitting

8