The expedition party included 45 souls including Lewis, Clark, 27 unmarried soldiers, a French-Indian interpreter, a contracted boat crew and an enslaved person owned by Clark named York. On May 14, 1804, Clark and the Corps joined Lewis in St. Charles, Missouri and headed upstream on the ...
Featured Artist Charles Fritz “Arikara Village of Earth-Covered Lodges” “Buffalo hunt. On snow shoes.” “Ball Players” George Catlin (1796–1872) gives us one of the most accurate views of Native American lifeways as seen by the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition when they trave...
Charles has on display a series of dioramas depicting the exploration of the American West.Artist Evangeline Groth of St. Louis County recently completed the final two of four dioramas representing the 1804-1806 expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from the Missouri River banks in St...
https://www.discoverstcharles.com Lewis & Clark Statue, St. Charles is a historical landmark in Saint Charles, MO, commemorating the famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This statue serves as a tribute to their expedition and the significant role they played in American history....
Great Falls, city, seat (1887) of Cascade county, west-central Montana, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River, near the falls (96 feet [29 metres] high) for which it was named. In 1805 the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark observed the falls a
Lewis and Clark's expedition officially began on May 14, 1804, when they and the 33 other men making up the Corps of Discovery departed from their camp near St. Louis, Missouri. The first portion of the expedition followed the route of the Missouri River during which, they passed through ...
In August of 1804, the team lost their first man, Sergeant Charles Floyd, probably due to acute appendicitis. He was the only member of expedition to die during the journey. By the end of August, Lewis and Clark had reached the edge of the Great Plains. During the expedition, Lewis and...
Meriwether Lewis died on September 3, 1809. The debate rages whether or not he was killed on the road by robbers, or had committed suicide. William Clark was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 1, 1838, at the age...
Lewis and Clark's expedition officially began on May 14, 1804, when they and the 33 other men making up the Corps of Discovery departed from their camp near St. Louis, Missouri. The first portion of the expedition followed the route of the Missouri River during which, they passed through ...