In a daring effort, Lewis and Clark sent five men to the beach to collect seawater for salt production — a 15-to-18-mile trek, now known as the Salt Camp Trail. While daunting by today's ...

Thomas P. Lowry has a blunt way with book titles. His latest, Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (University of Nebraska Press), adorns a study that is direct and brief, with one ...

When the Lewis & Clark Expedition arrived at Fort Clatsop, men were sent to the beach to extract salt from seawater to preserve food. That trek has been recreated. Skip Navigation.

The youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, officially called “The Corps of Discovery,” was a teenager. At the time that George Shannon signed up for the expedition, he was 15- or ...

Interior Secretary Gale Norton compared the international challenges facing the United States now with those met 200 years ago by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they explored the vast wilds ...

FARGO — The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, which went through the present-day northwestern U.S., was filled with high expectations. Government officials knew very little about this ...

To that end, the Army last week held a Pentagon launch of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, complete with a living, breathing link to the expedition: Army Capt. Meriwether A. Sale Jr.

The Lewis and Clark expedition had a cross sampling of all cultures of that time period.” Wearing buckskins and uniforms, the reenactors come from St. Charles, Mo., accurately recreating the ...

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis in the fall of 1806 after more than two years of exploring the American west, they brought a wealth of ...

From 1978, when the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail was established by Congress, until 2019, the eastern terminus of the expedition was regarded as St. Louis, home of the Gateway Arch, not ...