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Lewis and Clark Research Database
4 Research Articles
Company Commanders to Bureaucratic Administrators: Lewis & Clark After the Expedition
The post-expedition years of Lewis and Clark, from celebrated explorers to territorial administrators. Covers Lewis's governorship of Upper Louisiana, Clark's military career, their accomplishments in St. Louis, and Lewis's tragic death in 1809.
Down the Ohio: The Expedition’s Forgotten First Leg
Pittsburgh to the Mississippi, August-November 1803: what the surviving journal records, what letters document, and what rests on tradition - with Terrain360's 360-degree imagery of the Ohio River towns today.
Meriwether Lewis’ Formative Years: Learning Experiences in Georgia
An examination of Meriwether Lewis' early years through family letters preserved at the Missouri Historical Society, revealing that young Lewis only visited Georgia rather than residing there, and documenting the educational foundation that shaped the future explorer.
Pittsburgh to Wheeling, 1803: Lewis’s First Ten Days on the Ohio
August 31 to September 9, 1803: Lewis’s descent of the upper Ohio, riffle by riffle, from his own journal, with the places, the people he met, and what the record leaves open.
