Lewis and Clark’s expedition is often treated like a clean history-book adventure. It wasn’t. The Corps of Discovery dealt ...

A new book on Lewis and Clark sheds light on Seaman, the Newfoundland who accompanied the two explorers on their ...

FARGO — One of the most challenging, dangerous and significant multiyear expeditions ever assigned to a young man occurred in 1801. That happened when President Thomas Jefferson authorized Meriwether ...

Before setting off on May 14, 1804, to explore and map the recent Louisiana Purchase and find a passable water route west to the Pacific Ocean, Meriwether Lewis stopped in Frederick in April 1803 to ...

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, ...

On Aug. 31, 1803, Meriwether Lewis launched his 50-foot boat about 100 yards downriver from where the David L. Lawrence Convention Center now sits. For people who remember their elementary school ...

President Thomas Jefferson was thrilled with what Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had accomplished during their 1804-1806 ...

Controversy over Meriwether Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee. Connie Ricca / Corbis Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s ...