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 ...

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

Sept. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and ...

In the late 1830s, two young brothers from Virginia arrived in Jefferson City -- Meriwether Lewis Jefferson and Robert Randolph Jefferson. They were purported to be nephews of President Thomas ...