The Academy of Natural Sciences has safeguarded 222 pressed plants since the 19th century, with plans to display specimens in ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...

HARTFORD The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will host “Prince Maximilian and Karl Bodmer: Touring the Wilderness of ...

Today's guest botanist Rick McCourt tells the story of Lewis and Clark's collection of plant samples that went on a wild ...

The Riverbend region is renowned for its association with explorers such as Lewis and Clark, but there’s more to the story.

Folks in Jamestown heard details of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in April of 1905.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their forty-three fellow explorers headed west up the Missouri River, bound for the west coast. As they met a succession of different Native ...

Stroll the South Clatsop Slough boardwalk (keeps your feet dry above the marsh) and you will see more of the plants that Lewis collected including salmonberry and salal. While both plants are common ...