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Six accounts by Corps members (a woodcut, from Gass' journal, 1810 edition) have provided grist for generations of historians. Library of Congress As the Lewis and Clark bicentennial approaches ...
This medal is one of only three, four-inch peace medals taken on the expedition and given to the most important leaders.
Q: Are there any American Indian descendants of the members of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery? —Karen Wilson | Helena, Alabama In their journals, the men of the Corps of Discovery ...
Folks in Jamestown heard details of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in April of 1905.
On Dec. 12, 1803, three dozen soldiers arrived at the mouth of the Wood River in what is now Hartford and started building a fort. They left a few months later, rowing several boats into history as ...
Today's guest botanist Rick McCourt tells the story of Lewis and Clark's collection of plant samples that went on a wild ...
Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition, is one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States. Consisting of 87,000 acres of ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences has safeguarded 222 pressed plants since the 19th century, with plans to display specimens in ...
Each year the award honors one tourism enterprise for their “outstanding achievements to advance ... floors of exhibits chronicling the Lewis and Clark Expedition, along with regular multimedia ...
President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...