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Brad Winn, site superintendent since 2001, has helped the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site attract 100,000 visitors each ...
A recent episode of the YouTube series “History Traveler” made me aware of a site in Illinois called Camp Dubois, where the ...
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - On Saturday, April 12, a Siouxland museum will begin displaying a rare artifact that dates back to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It’s a peace medal that came through Sioux ...
Today's guest botanist Rick McCourt tells the story of Lewis and Clark's collection of plant samples that went on a wild ...
President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...
North Dakota and many of the other states that the original Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through had exhibit halls, although South Dakota did not. Altogether, 21 countries and 16 states used the ...
To lead the exploration, he appointed Meriwether Lewis, an outdoorsman and hunter who was 29 years old at the time, and William Clark, a 33-year-old trustworthy soldier. Together with a small team of ...
To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...