TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THE REGION NOW OCCUPIED BY THE TWIN CITIES OF BISMARCK AND MANDAN, NORTH...By GregorySteve
Sotonoff, Roberta
Lewis and Clark Expedition, U.S. military expedition (1804–06), led by Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. William Clark, to explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest. The expedition was a major chapter in the history of American exploratio
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