Maines, Sophia
Park interpreters dressed as William Clark, Sergeant Nathanial Pryor, Sacagawea and her baby, Jean Baptiste, at Ecola Head facing the Pacific Ocean.Image: NPS In 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent an exploratory party, the Corps of Discovery, led by captains, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explo...
Why Lancaster pops up on maps of the Lewis and Clark expeditionJack Brubaker
Lewis and Clark Expedition - Exploration, Pacific Coast, Return: The expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean in November, 1805. They spent the winter near present-day Astoria, Oregon, and started the return journey in March, 1806. The expedition contribu
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. He later served as governor of Upper Louisiana Territory. Born to William L
John Colter was an American trapper-explorer, the first white man to have seen and described (1807) what is now Yellowstone National Park. Colter was a member of Lewis and Clark’s company from 1803 to 1806. In 1807 he joined Manuel Lisa’s trapping part