Map of of the Western portion of Lewis and Clark's expedition | Historical/GettyImages. Jefferson accepted the deal without consulting anyone; Monroe and Livingston signed the Louisiana Purchase ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Season 2 Episode 1 | 29m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Watch a brief expose on the history of Lewis and Clark's "Corps of Discovery"! From 1804-1806 ...

Who was Sacagawea? The real story of her life and legacy Who was Sacagawea? The real story of her life and legacy Pictures: 1950s Family Retraces Lewis and Clark’s American Journey Pictures ...

In 1812, Sacagawea, the Indian woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition, died. In 1860, South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States.

It contradicts the date of Sacagawea’s death accepted by historians: That she died on Dec. 20, 1812, just six years after the Lewis and Clark expedition concluded, of “putrid fever” at Fort ...

Often remembered merely for guiding Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea’s story is far more complex. Discover the deeper story behind the life of this Shoshone woman—beyond the expedition.

Second, the Lewis and Clark expedition resonates because it’s not just a white man’s army, but rather a group of people from many different racial, ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds—a ...

On Nov. 15, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean a year and a half after starting out from St. Louis, Missouri.The explorers poled keelboats and sometimes ...

Rose Ann Abrahamson, a descendant of Sacagawea and a Shoshone-Bannock woman, said she has seen nearly every depiction of her ancestor in the country. “This statue in Charlottesville was the ...

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 ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark — plus the Corps of Discovery — returned to St. Louis after epic travels to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, Sept. 23, 1806.