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Meriwether Lewis was born August 18, 1774, [5] on Locust Hill Plantation in Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia, in the present-day community of Ivy. [6] He was the son of William Lewis, [7] of Welsh ancestry, and Lucy Meriwether, [8] of English ancestry. After his father died of pneumonia in November 1779, he moved with his mother and ...
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close ...
York (explorer) York (1770–75 – after 1815) [1] was an American explorer [2] and historic figure, being the only African-American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He participated in the entire exploration and made significant contributions to its success. [3] : 302 [4] : 152 He was the first African American to cross the continent ...
John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National ...
William Clark. William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. [ 1] A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri . Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 ...
978-0-7434-7788-8. OCLC. 56541137. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West ( ISBN 0684811073 ), written by Stephen Ambrose, is a 1996 biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The book is based on journals and letters written by Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Jefferson and ...
Lewis and Clark specimens, and where more than one example exists in the Museum's. collections, we selected the one that came from an area close to the route of the Corps of Discovery. In some instances, labels on the original Lewis and Clark specimens were. not attached or had incomplete information about date or location. In these cases,
The following summary appeared in the 2001 PBS DVD Gold release of the film: "Sent by President Thomas Jefferson to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the most important expedition in American history—a voyage of danger and discovery from St. Louis to the headwaters of the Missouri River, over the Continental Divide to the Pacific.