America has funded scientific research since 1804 — and remembers that first project as a national glory. Cutting similar ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis, 2nd Lt. William Clark and their Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis to a hero's welcome after their epic journey to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, ...

A large portion of North Dakota northerly of a line running roughly from the southeastern corner of North Dakota digonally about at the line of the Sheyenne River, on to Minot and the eastern Montana ...

John D.W. Guice, emeritus professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi Nobody disputes that Meriwether Lewis died of gunshot wounds suffered on October 11, 1809, at Grinder’s Stand, an inn ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. during an 8:00 p.m. (NASSCO), San Diego. adventure stories. California, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. from the families of Capt. Meriwether Lewis and then-Lt. Lewis ...

Click to open image viewer. To commemorate the bicentennial of the official launch of the Lewis and Clark expedition on May 14, 1804, a special 32-page prestige booklet, Lewis & Clark: The Corps of ...

BALDWYN, Miss. (AP) — Clark Richey of Baldwyn has heard the legends of the Natchez Trace throughout the course of his lifetime, growing up just miles away from the 444-mile stretch of ancient land. “I ...

Don't look for the story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Northwest Passage here%E2%80%94Danisi has already published a biography (Meriwether Lewis, with John ...

The most well-known of the many challenges Meriwether Lewis faced in his brief life (1774-1809) were those he confronted as leader, with William Clark, of the expedition that opened the American West.