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$5 for a compass that would guide you 7,000 miles across the American West
$5 Compass
In Philadelphia, a year before setting off on the 1804 journey with his close friend William Clark, Capt. Meriwether Lewis paid $5 for a silver plated, mahogany-boxed, three-and-a-half-inch compass. It would guide them some 7,000 miles across the American West and help them produce one of the expedition's greatest achievements: the first map depicting the true scope of the Rocky Mountains.
Philadelphia
1803
Dan Winters
http://www.smithsonianmag.com
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