Today's guest botanist Rick McCourt tells the story of Lewis and Clark's collection of plant samples that went on a wild ...
Many of us learned about the expedition of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark and the help they received ...
President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences has safeguarded 222 pressed plants since the 19th century, with plans to display specimens in ...
Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition, is one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States. Consisting of 87,000 acres of ...
You can even order dolls of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ... us our first great national road story. Second, the Lewis and Clark expedition resonates because it’s not just a white man ...
During the expedition, Lewis acted more like the ... for their horrid crimes,” he wrote his 23-year-old son, Meriwether Lewis Clark, then aide-decamp to Army Gen. Henry Atkinson In August ...
The one that every schoolchild learns about began in 1804, when Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis ... Jefferson instructed expedition leader Lewis to “take observations on ...