“Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis and Clark” will be on display at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls through Dec. 4 to share some of the maps that influenced the westward ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Jay Vogt talked about the Lewis and Clark expedition’s encounter with members of the Lakota Sioux at a spot along the Missouri River that is now Pierre, ...

Martin Plamondon II, 58, a cartographer who spent 30 years mapping the 7,400-mile route of the Lewis and Clark expedition in a three-volume work, died Wednesday in his home near Vancouver, Wash. The ...

STEUBENVILLE – Never thought I’d have occasion to use that dateline, but here we are. Or were. A recent Facebook post by Louise Conn Fleming-Dufala inspired the 260-mile road trip. “Yesterday I drove ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the expansion of the United States in 1803 through the Louisiana Purchase and the two-year expedition of Meriwether ...

after acquiring new territory from France in the Louisiana purchase, President Thomas Jefferson wants to find out more about the land and its resources. Jefferson needs to establish an American ...

The arrival of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in what is now North Dakota came on a day John Newman undoubtedly ached to forget. On that rainy fall afternoon nearly 200 years ago, while ...

Today, thanks to the widespread publication of the Lewis and Clark journals, the observations of the men of the Corps of Discovery are still very relevant. It sounds strange to say, but reading the ...

Ben Pollard, site interpretive coordinator at Lewis & Clark State Historic Site in Hartford, spoke Friday in Jacksonville on the expedition's scientific role. A sketch of a bird drawn by William Clark ...

Two centuries ago, before Lewis and Clark went in search of a passage to the Pacific Ocean, David Thompson paddled the Columbia River, worked to establish a trading alliance with Mandan Indians and ...