When explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark blazed a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1806, they were hailed as heroes. But three years later — at the age of 35 — Lewis ...

When Stephen Ambrose greeted readers with “Undaunted Courage” in 1996, he admitted some initial doubts about whether a new ...

By 1806, the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had solved the greatest question about their young nation: What lies beyond the wilderness? Three years later, Lewis’s death. at age ...

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 ...

Join the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford for the 2026 Departure Event featuring reenactors, artisan demos, ...

Re-enactors return to the Hartford site where Lewis and Clark launched into the unknown ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – 2004 marks the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expeditions to the West, and a U.S. senator wants to solve the mystery behind Meriwether Lewis' death in time for the ...

The Grand Lodge AF & AM Museum in Helena displays the masonic apron of Meriwether Lewis. Not only is this treasure important to Freemasonry, it is also important for the role it played in the nation’s ...

Controversy over Meriwether Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee. Connie Ricca / Corbis Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s ...

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. Many people recognize the ...

The city of Charlottesville, Va. followed up its removal of two controversial Confederate statues Saturday with the lightning-fast toppling of a third local landmark: a monumental tribute to explorers ...