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

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 ...

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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 ...

Save the date for an upcoming book launch and author event at the Lewis County Public Library & Archives featuring historian ...

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 ...

BILLINGS -- Capt. Meriwether Lewis recorded in his specimen notes that the violet prairie clover he first observed somewhere in Nebraska or South Dakota had medicinal value. ''The Indians use it as an ...

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