The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will commemorate the 221st anniversary of the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...

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 ...

1950s Family Retraces Lewis and Clark’s American Journey In the Field: New Expedition Takes on Rockies Wildlife Conservation–From a Wolverine’s Perspective In the Field: New Expedition Takes ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars). Congress received a confidential message from Jefferson to outfit an ...

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 ...