Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson ...

On May 14, in 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out with a crew of 30 men on an expedition that would change America, leaving what was then known as Camp Dubois in Illinois on a trek to ...

July 4, 1804—To mark our first Fourth west of the Mississippi, Lewis directed me to powder the keelboat's cannon so he could fire it. I would have liked to shoot it too, but that's OK. Lewis is so ...

Prelude to a great adventure -- Presage of the garden -- Organizing a western journey -- Trouble in the expedition's blood -- A field scientist and the American Philosophical Society -- Return to St.

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 ...

BILLINGS -- Capt. Meriwether Lewis recorded in his specimen notes that the violet prairie clover he first observed somewhere in Nebraska or South Dakota had medicinal value. ''The Indians use it as an ...