“Captain's Dog” and “Undaunted Courage” are two books about the journey of Lewis and Clark who travel through America so they could map and find a route to the pacific. While Lewis and Clark did wonderful things for America they weren't complete angels and they did do some bad things. Some of these things include kicking out natives from their homeland and wasting time trying to create or try new things. Although they did this some of what they did wasn’t all bad such as helping America get to know their country better and helping the natives get food and supplies. On this expedition Lewis and Clark were exploring the lands and declaring it theirs even though there were many natives that were there before them. They simply just kicked out these natives and didn’t really give them a choice. They made this seem okay to the natives by making their first impression with them as good as possible, but this didn’t work very well with the Sioux tribe: “The first meeting between the Sioux and the Americans had gone badly. Certainly Lewis and Clark had failed to make the favorable impression on the SIoux that Jefferson had ordered them to do” (UC pg 171). …show more content…
They also experimented with arsenic a bit and this could’ve ended the trip, but luckily it didn’t. They had also thought they were much greater than the natives and even got a little cocky and even over confident: “He had always been self-confident; now he was cocksure. He remarked at Lemhi Pass in 1805 that anything Indians could do, he and his men could do” (UC pg 370) which might explain why Lewis tried to make the iron