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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Keeping the Journals

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist rendering of a scene depicting a typical camp somewhere along the river in Missouri during the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It shows Sgt. Ordway writing his daily entry into his journal.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Moreau River

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist rendering of a picture depicting the Corps of Discovery camping at the mouth of the Moreau River on the night of June 3, 1804.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Osage Joins the Missouri

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides details of Lewis and Clark's visit to the Osage River territory in June 1804.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Ordway's Mishap

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist rendering of a mishap that occurred on the keelboat during the Lewis and Clark expedition when "Our mast broke by my steering the boat (alone) near the shore," June 4, 1804.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Hair Raising Hazards

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a letter Meriwether Lewis wrote to his mother describing the unnerving dangers he had faced on the Missouri River and the anxiety he was feeling about what lay ahead.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Manholes on the Mo

For Students 9th - 10th
Lewis writes about an encounter that Sergeant Ordway and Private Willard had with a gang of sawyers on the night of August 4, 1806, somewhere downstream from the mouth of the Milk River.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Missouri: Habits & Eccentricities

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a closer look at the "Big Muddy" and all its peculiarities. Learn about the personality of the Missouri River from the days of Lewis and Clark up to today.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Cornfed River

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicts Lewis and Clark's adventures in the Missouri river flood plain in 1804.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Mouth of the Yellowstone River

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Corps of Discovery's march to the Yellowstone river in the early 1800s.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Judith River

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the discovery of the Judith River named by William Clark in 1805 in honor of his future wife.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: What They Found: Mountains, Montana & Idaho

For Students 9th - 10th
View a detailed map to learn what the Corps of Discovery found as they crossed the Rocky Mountains. Includes links to information about what they actually expected to find.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Mrc Map of the Big Bend (1880S)

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents the Missouri River Commission's map of the Big Bend from the 1880s.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

Discovering Lewis & Clark: Meriwether Lewis (1774 1809)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page, part of a larger site from Discovering Lewis & Clark, briefly presents the life and times of Meriwether Lewis.