It showed a safe and short route home through the Rocky ... artifacts in the exhibit that the stained map rarely gets a second look. The Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition is in ...

Visitors to the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail can retrace the Corps of Discovery's 3,700-mile route to the Pacific Ocean, stopping in at more than 100 sites in Illinois and Oregon as well ...

He is in his fourth year of retracing the steps of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ... who has plotted the route on U.S. Geological Survey maps. Every time Mr. Phelps takes a picture, he ...

It is a 3,700-mile, 11-state route that extends from Camp Wood ... [See an interactive version of this map,The Lewis and Clark Trail from Space, prepared by the National Park Service.] ...

In summer 1804, Meriwether Lewis and ... a navigable river route to the Pacific Ocean. They didn’t find it—but they did return with journals full of observations, new maps of previously ...

Lewis and Clark continued to map out new areas as they progressed ... and the Corps will have to find a route around all of them by land. How will they do this while carrying all that equipment?

Shortly after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory and to seek a water route to ...

These maps greatly aided future explorers and settlers, including providing the basic route for the Oregon Trail. During their travels, Lewis and Clark established relationships with over two dozen ...

We are a people in motion, whether on the Trail of Tears, Route 66 or the Interstate ... Not only do the Lewis and Clark stories entertain us, they serve as a map and guide for life on the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The American Empress makes a weekly trip between Astoria, Oregon, and Clarkson, Washington. The paddlewheel steamboat, built ...

the Louisiana Purchase took a Corps of Discovery across the country before many states even existed on the map. They included Lewis and Clark, along with Sacajawea and York, and their route ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis, 2nd Lt. William Clark and their Corps of Discovery ... lasted 28 months and covered 8,000 miles of an undulating route largely following the Missouri and ...