The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site will commemorate the 221st anniversary of the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ...

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted ... Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the U.S. secretary of ...

Hundreds of Lewis and Clark books are flooding the market ... A gift catalog from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello offers stuffed versions of a prairie dog, a bison and a Newfoundland dog made ...

Most Americans have heard the story of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery that was sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new Louisiana Purchase from 1804-1806. What most people do not ...

President Thomas Jefferson authorized the official expedition ... Lewis invited William Clark to be co-commander of the expedition. Lewis and Clark and the Expedition’s men, boats and supplies ...

Lewis and Clark built their first camp on the east ... of these men and the fortune and luck these men had. Brad Winn: (Thomas) Jefferson was one of the foremost authorities on the western part ...

This medal is one of only three, four-inch peace medals taken on the expedition and given to the most important leaders.

In filling the gaps in our knowledge of Clark, who, along with Meriwether Lewis, led Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery expedition (1804-1806), Jones also revivifies the complex and compelling ...

the year before Lewis and Clark embarked on their roughly 8,000-mile trek. By that point, President Thomas Jefferson had already chosen his former secretary, Lewis, to lead this "voyage of discovery." ...

Thomas Jefferson did not achieve greatness in ... Jefferson hoped and expected that Virginians of Meriwether Lewis’ and William Clark’s generation would abolish slavery. His writing showed ...