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 ...

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 ...

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.

However, Lewis and Clark’s expedition served its own purpose under President Thomas Jefferson’s commission: to explore lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase.

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 ...

“Capt Lewis and Clark . . . histed a flage on (Blackbird’s) Grave as nonor (honor) for him which will pleas the Indianes.” A week later the party pitched camp at a spot that yielded 318 fish ...

To that end, the Army this month held a Pentagon launch of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, complete with a living, breathing link to the expedition: Army Capt. Meriwether A. Sale Jr.

ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER — They are a most unlikely flotilla, these guys in their Lewis and Clark garb, paddling dugout canoes, tightly shadowed by a squad of National Guardsmen in motorized Zodiac ...

Whether the enslaved, 30-something black man wanted to participate in Lewis and Clark’s expedition to the Pacific Ocean is impossible to know — almost certainly, no one ever asked him.

But one aspect of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been largely ignored: the active sex lives of the men. It's an instructive angle on the story of the Corps of Discovery.

Thomas P. Lowry has a blunt way with book titles. His latest, Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (University of Nebraska Press), adorns a study that is direct and brief, with one ...