Today, well follow the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they return to civilization. Well also discuss the lives of a few key ...

In July of 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis and three of his companions had a violent confrontation with the Blackfeet, ...

Of Capt. Meriwether Lewis, we know this: Three years after returning from the Lewis and Clark expedition, he was dead of gunshot wounds, probably a suicide, at Grinder’s Stand, an isolated inn in ...

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson asked his private secretary, army Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a first-time expedition to the Pacific Coast. One goal: collect indigenous flora. Two centuries ...

As the Corps of Discovery prepared to explore west from the Knife River Indian villages in the spring of 1805, Meriwether Lewis made one of those larger than life and very eloquent entries in his ...

After Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the Indian interpreter and guide Sacagawea is probably the most famous member of the expedition. Her contributions were praised by the captains; William Clark ...

The two journals, here printed for the first time, are from the original manuscripts discovered in 1913 and 1914 among the papers of the Biddle family and now preserved in the Library of Congress. The ...

Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, accompanied by three of his men, explored this portion of the country upon their return trip from the coast. On July 26, 1806, they met ...

As the summer of 1806 and the return home approached, Capt. Meriwether Lewis fretted over the hazards of crossing the Rockies. The supply of trinkets for barter was exhausted, and on June 2, he wrote: ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Captain Meriwether Lewis, explorer, will visit Island Park at 6 p. m. Friday, September 13 to ...