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Eliza House Trist journal
cover, Special Collections,
University of Virginia
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From the UncommonWealth
blog:
Eliza House Trist & Thomas
Jefferson:
A Friendship and a Woman’s
Journal of Westward
Exploration
We’ve all heard the story of
Lewis and Clark: Two brave men,
sent by Thomas Jefferson, were
tasked with exploring the
westward Louisiana territory in
1803. However, do you know of
the woman who traversed the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers two
decades before that, and kept a
journal at the behest of Thomas
Jefferson?
Few do. Let’s remedy that, shall
we?
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