Today, well follow the Lewis and Clark Expedition as they return to civilization. Well also discuss the lives of a few key figures post-expedition. Whatever happened to Sacagawea? Is it true she lived ...

In July of 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis and three of his companions had a violent confrontation with the Blackfeet, resulting in at least one dead warrior. This encounter would lead to strained ...

Meriwether Lewis died here. Aaron Burr did not, but 21/2 years after slaying Alexander Hamilton in a duel, he surrendered here. And thousands of Native Americans collectively left their mark when they ...

John D.W. Guice, emeritus professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi Nobody disputes that Meriwether Lewis died of gunshot wounds suffered on October 11, 1809, at Grinder’s Stand, an inn ...

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 ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- The Hannibal Free Public Library is hosting the traveling panel exhibit commemorating Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the role Missouri played in the history-making ...

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, ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and ...

One small fish provided Native peoples with both nutrition and light. The eulachon, also known as smelt or candlefish, often provided hungry Indigenous tribes with food until spring. Meriwether Lewis ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. during an 8:00 p.m. (NASSCO), San Diego. adventure stories. California, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. from the families of Capt. Meriwether Lewis and then-Lt. Lewis ...

LOWER BRULE, S.D. (AP) - If the inscription on the gravestone of Sheldon Fletcher's great-great-great grandfather is correct, Fletcher is related to history. According to the headstone, Joseph Lewis ...

JOHNSTOWN — In a nondescript, unnamed, grass-and-dirt parklet near Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center, a blue-and-yellow Pennsylvania historical marker identifies a spot where the ...