Louis while they and the rest of the Corps headed for the Pacific Ocean. They crossed through Montana and made their way to the Continental Divide via Lemhi Pass where, with Sacagawea’s help, they purchased horses from the Shoshone. While there, Sacagawea reunited with her brother Cameahwait...
Council Bluffs, city, seat (1851) of Pottawattamie county, southwestern Iowa, U.S., on the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed there in 1804 and held consultations with the Oto and Missouri Indians at a place
Eventually, they found it and in June the expedition came together and crossed the river's headwaters. Shortly thereafter the Corps arrived at the Continental Divide and were forced to continue their journey on horseback at Lemhi Pass on the Montana-Idaho border on August 26, 1805. Reaching...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition ostensibly began in February 1801 when PresidentThomas Jeffersonwrote a letter to Army commander GeneralJames Wilkinsonrequesting that LieutenantMeriwether Lewisbecome the President’spersonal secretary. Exploration of North America’s western half had long been a goal of the...
My kayaking gear was stored at Yankton. There I started paddling up the Missouri River as far as Three Forks, Montana, approximately 1,510 river miles. From Three Forks I followed the Lewis and Clark Trail on foot, up the Jefferson and Beaverhead Rivers, then over Lemhi Pass to Salmon, ...
Lemhi Pass and went over the Bitterroot Mts. through Lolo Pass. They had reached the land of westward-flowing rivers, and for part of their way they followed the Clearwater River down to the Snake River (long called the Lewis). The Snake took them to the Columbia River and they spent ...
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
The group included two invaluable members who America had not treated kindly – York, a Black man owned by Clark, and a 16-year old pregnant Lemhi-Shoshone called Sacagawea, who had been forced into marriage after being purchased by a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau. He ...
Lewis and Clark story and the chance to connect these early explorers to the larger and richer stories of our past. On the road with Thomas Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery, or even standing alongside the trail as they pass by, we meet ourselves, and more important, we meet people who ...
Myths about Sacajawea troubling reality for tribe ; Lemhi-Shoshone feel left out of Lewis and Clark bicentennialHannelore Sudermann Staff writer