9) How did Lewis and Clark plan to cross the Rocky Mountains?

Lewis was to go directly east, using the pass to take a shortcut out of the mountains to the eastern Montana plains. Clark would cross over from the Bitterroot to the Big Hole River and then follow the Big Hole and the Jefferson River down to the Three Forks of the Missouri.

Explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”