Today, well follow the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they return to civilization. Well also discuss the lives of a few key ...

In the Spring of 1803, the United States acquired the Territory of Louisiana, a largely uncharted tract of wilderness stretching from Canada all the way down to New Orleans, over 800,000 square miles ...

On May 14, in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out with a crew of 30 men on an expedition that would change America, leaving what was then known as Camp Dubois in Illinois on a trek to ...

Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition’s arrival at the mouth of the Columbia River was supposed to be a moment of triumph, but instead they were immediately thrown into a battle for survival. That story, a ...

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No artist traveled along with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the epic journey that opened up the American West. The only portraits done of the two explorers were completed after their return, ...

Blacksmith Adrian Ortiz from St. Louis demonstrates the craft as it existed in the early 1800s during the Departure event at Lewis and Clark State Historic Site on Saturday, May 10, 2025. HARTFORD — ...

July 4, 1804—To mark our first Fourth west of the Mississippi, Lewis directed me to powder the keelboat's cannon so he could fire it. I would have liked to shoot it too, but that's OK. Lewis is so ...

Of Capt. Meriwether Lewis, we know this: Three years after returning from the Lewis and Clark expedition, he was dead of gunshot wounds, probably a suicide, at Grinder’s Stand, an isolated inn in ...