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 ...

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 ...

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Many people recognize the significance of the names "Lewis and Clark," but fewer know that Army Capt. Meriwether Lewis' westward expedition was wholly a military endeavor. As official commander of the ...

FARGO — The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, which went through the present-day northwestern U.S., was filled with high expectations. Government officials knew very little about this region, ...

Meriwether Lewis and his father served as soldiers and couriers during this period in American history. Long before he set out on his famous exploration of the American West with William Clark, ...

Without William Clark, Meriwether Lewis' expedition may have been a bust. Clark, gregarious and funny and hard-working, was the one who drilled the men on the Corps of Discovery and kept the historic ...

York is described as “the first African American to cross North America." A memorial bust of York, a Black slave who was part of the Lewis and Clark expedition, has appeared in Portland. The artwork ...

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 ...

At times we all wonder what has happened to a person with whom we have lost contact. The same curiosity occurred to explorer William Clark while thinking about the members of the Corps of Discovery he ...

WASHINGTON — Did Meriwether Lewis — half the leadership of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Territory — commit suicide or was he murdered along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee ...

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