The complete online text of History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. by Meriwether Lewis.

Explorer and U.S. Army officer, Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) has been saluted as America's foremost explorer. The Lewis and Clark expedition is often called America's national epic of exploration. Meriwether Lewis was born in Albemarle County, Va., on Au...

In 1803 the United States doubled in size as the result of the Louisiana Purchase. A year later the dominant movement in American society of the nineteenth century, westward expansion, originated with the men that President Thomas Jefferson sent out to e...

[The following essay discusses Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.] Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the first American scientific expedition that the United States government sponsored, the first to cross the North American continent within the pr...

A member of the Montana Army National Guard spent a good part of last winter preparing to re-enact part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. SSG Scott Mandrell, a member of the Montana Army National Guard, spent a good part of this past...

Miller, Robert J. Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 03-24-2004 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark rank high in the pantheon of American folk heroes. Even today, at the 200-year commemoration of their expedition, Lewis and Clark are viewed as brave adventurers who went where...