A letter to Jefferson

Dear Sir Jefferson,

I am writing to you to inform you of the progress on the expedition. We have came across some interesting species in our travels. We have discovered a new creature that spends its time in the prairie. We have called it the prairie dog. We were truly amazed a gruesome looking bear. Thus, we have called it the grizzly bear. I have been documenting all of the sites we have seen on our journey. I have specific descriptions of every new discovery. I'd love to share with you my discoveries at the moment, but I a quite busy at the moment. So I will just inform you of some more of our discoveries.

There are plants we found new kinds of plant life too! There are many different colored plants just as there are in the north. There is a plant that some Nez Perce eat. It is called camas. Some also call it quamash. I would love for yo to see everything that I have.

Sincerely,
Meriwether Lewis

Here are pictures I found of the discoveries I talked about and some other things:
(obviously Lewis wouldn't have added this part)

grizzly bear

buffalo

this is a picture of a prairie dog
this is something like what
they might have seen

Here are two flowers that Lewis and Clark found. They became named after them. white Philadelphus lewisii and the other flower became called the pink Clarkia pulchella.

Reflection:

I was really happy with the outcome of this letter. It was a lot of fun writing the letter because I got to do some more specific research on what they discovered. I decided to have Meriwether write to Jefferson for the letter because I think it would kind of symbolize how they were closer as friends and as colleagues. Also of course one of the head people of the mission should report back to the president.