Did the United States get its money's worth with the Louisiana Purchase? Join me, as I lead you through the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition! ♪ Many Americans already shared the itch to ...

In summer 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis and embarked ... Monroe and Livingston signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on May 2, 1803, in Paris. (The Senate later approved ...

You look for specific historical deposits. And famed explorers of the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark, made some very unusual ones. A year after President Thomas Jefferson purchased a lot of ...

It was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson after the Louisiana Purchase to explore the newly acquired territory. Lewis & Clark is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

When Meriwether Lewis invited Clark, his army buddy and an accomplished soldier and outdoorsman, to accompany him on a journey across the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase Territory in 1803 ...

books and artifacts on 18th-century explorations of America that were precursors of the Lewis and Clark expedition, plus the original treaty for the Louisiana Purchase, plant samples and animal ...

Lewis and Clark’s expedition served its own purpose under President Thomas Jefferson’s commission: to explore lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase.

The Corps of Discovery departed from St. Louis on May 14, 1804 and headed into the great unknown of the Louisiana Purchase in search ... Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to be on the lookout ...

In 1804, Jefferson tasked Lewis and Clark to lead an expedition to explore the land west of the Mississippi River following the Louisiana Purchase and map an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean.

On this day in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson asked Congress to appropriate $2,500 — about $1.6 million in today’s dollars — to finance the Lewis and Clark expedition. The path-breaking ...

Lewis and Clark came through what is now Sioux City in 1804 as they explored the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase and sought a northwest passage to the west coast. Weaver says some of the ...

Windsock Media The varied landscape that greeted Meriwether Lewis and William Clark two centuries ago as they explored the Louisiana Purchase takes on new dimension in "Chasing Lewis and Clark ...