Lewis had served under Clark in several military battles, and respected him so much that he wanted Clark to be commissioned as his co-commander on the expedition.

The youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, officially called “The Corps of Discovery,” was a teenager. At the time that George Shannon signed up for the expedition, he was 15- or ...

When the Lewis & Clark Expedition arrived at Fort Clatsop, men were sent to the beach to extract salt from seawater to preserve food. That trek has been recreated. Skip Navigation.

On Nov. 15, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean a year and a half after starting out from St. Louis, Missouri.The explorers poled keelboats and sometimes ...

In a daring effort, Lewis and Clark sent five men to the beach to collect seawater for salt production — a 15-to-18-mile trek, now known as the Salt Camp Trail. While daunting by today's ...

FARGO — The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, which went through the present-day northwestern U.S., was filled with high expectations.

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The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center offers visitors a unique hands on experience with furs of animals encountered during ...

When the early-1800s expedition to the Pacific Ocean led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned after two years and 8,000 miles, members who traveled with the now-famous pair of explorers ...

Lewis and Clark's push home through hostile Indian territory is the subject of a talk Monday, June 19, in Kalispell. Historian Hal Stearns covers the expedition's decision to split up while ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis and 2nd Lt. William Clark — plus the Corps of Discovery — returned to St. Louis after epic travels to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, Sept. 23, 1806.