America Still Isn’t Ready to Acknowledge That a Hero of National Myth Could Have Died by Suicide

Since most Americans don’t think much about Lewis and Clark beyond elementary school, it often comes as a surprise to learn ...
StamfordAdvocate

Mississippi-based film of Meriwether Lewis to premiere

BALDWYN, Miss. (AP) — Clark Richey of Baldwyn has heard the legends of the Natchez Trace throughout the course of his lifetime, growing up just miles away from the 444-mile stretch of ancient land. “I ...
insider.si.edu

37c Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on Hill single

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. To commemorate the bicentennial of ...
Daily Press

New highway marker coming to K&Q County recognizes Meriwether Lewis ancestor

KING AND QUEEN — A new historical highway marker approved for King and Queen County will recognize early colonial immigrant John Lewis, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark expedition ...
Southeast Missourian

Document signed by Lewis and Clark expected to fetch $80,000 at auction

ST. LOUIS — An 1809 land sale document going up for auction this week is valued at $80,000 or more because of the two famous signatures on it — belonging to explorers Meriwether Lewis and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Me and Meriwether

July 4, 1804—To mark our first Fourth west of the Mississippi, Lewis directed me to powder the keelboat's cannon so he could fire it. I would have liked to shoot it too, but that's OK. Lewis is so ...