Topic: Meriwether Lewis

Everyone was murdered!

The forthcoming book "Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive" is, according to its publishing house, filled with "explosive,"...

Clark's descendants make amends to tribe

0 . After completing their journey west and spending a wet and wretched winter at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1806, William Clark and...

William Clark Forged A Path Westward For The New Nation

President Jefferson sent two men westward, and they returned with keys to America's future.. Friends William Clark and Meriwether Lewis put much of today's U.S. on the map by leading with complementary skills.. Scholars "think there were periods during ...

Meriwether Lewis

Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809), a United States explorer and administrator. During 1804-06 Lewis and William Clark led an expedition to explore the...

Sacajawea

Sacajawea, Sacagawea or Sakakawea (1787?-1884?), a Shoshoni Indian woman who served as an interpreter and a guide for the Lewis and Clark...

Biography: William Clark

At one point in their expedition illness struck, and Meriwether Lewis made a steaming brew of chokecherry twigs. Lewis and Clark spent the hard winter of 1805 on the coast, food was scarce. " The President was deeply moved at the loyalty of ...
After purchasing the Louisiana Territory in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the region. William Clark was the one responsible for mapping and documenting the natural flora and fauna. Within the written descriptions were the thoughts ...

Biography: Meriwether Lewis

Recognized as the official leader of the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, Lewis has been called ' undoubtedly the greatest pathfinder our country has ever known'. Meriwether Lewis was born into a very distinguished family on 18 August 1774 on a plantation near ...
Half of the nation's population lives within a day's road trip of Louisville, which is situated at the center of three major interstates, I-65, I-71 and I-64. Two new museums are devoted to the history and heritage of Louisville's ...

How are whitewater rapids classified?

OK, so you've got a spiffy new kayak, canoe or raft, and you're itching to try it out on a whitewater rapid. But while you want those rapids to be...