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He was born circa 1770 and he began accompanying Clark on the expedition in 1804. Subtract 1770 from 1804, and he would have been about 34 years old when the entire Corps of Discovery left St. Louis, Missouri. He would have then been about 38 or 39 when the expedition returned to St. Louis on September 23, 1806.
