In 1804 an expeditionary force, under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their journey from the ...

In 1804 an expeditionary force, under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their journey from the ...

Pittsburgh has had many firsts over the years and one of them involves being the launching point for Lewis and Clark and ...

The Corps of Discovery made history in more ways than one. Under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second ...

He was a key player in one of the earliest missions to explore the western frontier, including present day North Dakota. More ...

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 ...

Controversy over Meriwether Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee. Connie Ricca / Corbis Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prelude to a great adventure -- Presage of the garden -- Organizing a western journey -- Trouble in the expedition's blood -- A field scientist and the American Philosophical Society -- Return to St.

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 — ...

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 ...