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oin the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and attend its annual meeting in Bismarck, North Dakota this July! Click Here for registration information.

ince January of 2009 the ownership and management of Discovering Lewis & Clark® have been in the hands of the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation of Washburn, North Dakota. Our intention is not only to preserve and maintain the site as it has evolved since it opened in 1998, but also to undertake a series of new initiatives and historical investigations, and to introduce emerging technologies at appropriate times, in pursuit of our mission to make this the most comprehensive and useful Lewis and Clark website on the Internet.

We welcome serious suggestions, comments and queries from our readers via the "Contact" utility at left, above. We are eager to receive proposals for articles, photo essays, and other contributions to Discovering Lewis & Clark®. More about the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation will be found on the Credits page, listed above at left.

David Borlaug, President,
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Wendy Spencer, Vice President
Clay Jenkinson, Editor & Director
Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, Assoc. Editor

 
 
 

 

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For a little more about this species,
see Soft Gold – Fur

Revisions and Corrections:

"Lewisia rediviva (Pursh)"

Missing footnotes have been added to "Clark's Map: Turning Point"

"Robert Frazer"

"Flagship - Barge - Keelboat." See the heading "Hazards," a little more than halfway down, and side-heads "Seeking Counter Currents," "Obstructions," "Stemming the Current," "Sour Notes," "Frisian horses," and "Silent Triumph."

In the 112-page series "Discovering Lewis & Clark from the Air"—

"27. Tornado Damage"

"30. Sioux City, Iowa"

"53. Deserts of America"

"54. White Cliffs."

Recent Additions:

ack Nisbet, prominent teacher, naturalist and writer, contributed a second essay to Discovering Lewis & Clark®. This one is titled Convergence: David Douglas, the Corps of Discovery, and Scientific Exploration in the New World. In April of 2007 he presented Parallel Journeys: David Thompson, Lewis & Clark, and Thomas Jefferson. For a list of Nisbet's numerous print publications to date, click on his name on the menu page of either essay.

Last summer we published a chapter from DL&C editor Clay S. Jenkinson's most recent book, The Character of Meriwether Lewis, plus an interview with the author.

Icon of the American West: The Pronghorn Antelope -- Miocene Enigma

Coming in February 2013

or purposes of comparison, Lewis and Clark occasionally mentioned the names of some of "man's best friends" to help clarify their descriptions of unfamiliar animals. Those "Dog Tales" will shed some light on the canid species that were among the best known during the first decade of the 19th century.

The long-promised article on the probable design of the expedition's dugout canoes is still in progress. Researched and written by the scholar, author, and veteran canoeist William W. Bevis, it will amplify the discussions and illustrations in the existing pages on dugouts.


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From Discovering Lewis & Clark ®, http://www.lewis-clark.org © 1998-2009 VIAs Inc.
© 2009 by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Washburn, North Dakota.
Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
13 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001)