There are trees growing in Philadelphia (at Fourth and Spruce Streets) and the University of Virginia (at Morea, a guest house) today that grew from the cuttings Lewis sent.14 And as historian Michael Brodhead notes, this was the beginning of “a rich, almost uniquely American phenomenon: the military naturalist.

Stephen E. Ambrose Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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