Our pioneer journey continues.   Evaluating the disposition of  the indigenous people and the lay of the land, so to speak, were primary...

The Corp of Discovery expedition to the Pacific in 1804-06 sought to befriend the indigenous peoples along the Missouri River and beyond....

Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark steered their boats upriver on the Missouri after a friendly meeting with Yankton Sioux.

The Corps of Discovery in late August 1804 approached the confluence of the Niobrara River and Missouri River near the border of today’s...

Sergeant Charles Floyd dies as Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark guide their 1804 expeditioners against the flow of the...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition continues north of the Platte River after meeting first representatives of Plains native Americans.

In July 1804 Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with their Corps of Discovery pushed and sailed up the Missouri River beyond abandoned...

In this video segment, the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) on the Missouri River has passed beneath the bluffs of Leavenworth,...

We have followed President Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery, led by Captains Lewis and Clark, to St. Louis (St. Charles) and some distance...

Lewis and Clark explorers sail/row/haul boats and supplies up the Missouri River from St. Charles toward Kansas in Spring 1804. ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition formally composed itself at St. Louis and Fort Dubois as winter set in 1803-1804.  The Louisiana Purchase...

Continuing float down the Ohio River, Lewis and Clark leave Louisville in late October intending to arrive in the St. Louis area at the...

Pioneer Trail (cont.): Meriwether Lewis at Big Bone Lick and then on to the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville.

Meriwether Lewis, Ohio River, Pittsburgh to Rising Sun

Lewis and Clark Expedition, Phase 1 Lewis's Preparations Our journey to the new Western frontier begins with  Meriwether Lewis’s...

The Corps of Discovery was one of President Thomas Jefferson’s most memorable experiments.    The 8,000-mile trek by boat, foot, and...

Between 1800 and Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana territory in 1803, the Europeans looked for ways to unload or reform the region.

The Ungovernable Journey, continues. Prelude to Lewis and Clark Corp. of Discovery to the West.

Spaniards and French each settled and controlled swaths of the Gulf Coast and even the vital port of New Orleans.   American frontier...

Frontier settlers after the American Revolution, and even before, were generally suspicious of the powers wielded by the eastern...