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nder new management! In January of 2009 the ownership and management of Discovering Lewis & Clark® was officially transferred from VIAs Inc. to the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation of Washburn, North Dakota. Our intention is not only to preserve and maintain the site produced by Joseph Mussulman since 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,
Fort Mandan Foundation
Wendy Spencer, Vice President,
Fort Mandan Foundation

Clay Jenkinson, Editor & Director

Stephenie Ambrose-Tubbs, Assoc. Editor

Joseph Mussulman, Assistant Editor

 
Soon to come

npacking Jefferson's Indian Hall, by Elizabeth Chew, curator for The Jefferson Association of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Some answers to those "Lingering Questions" about the design and navigation of dugout canoes, by William W. Bevis, scholar, author and veteran canoeist.

Those famous "'Three curses' of Meriwether Lewis", explored and interpreted in an eight-page episode.

Winter, 2010, "The Sonic Substance of the Lewis and Clark Trail."

 

New in June, 2009

he Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation is pleased to re-publish, for archival purposes, Day by Day with Lewis and Clark, consisting of 627 three-and-one-half-minute audio vignettes covering the expedition's 863 days en route. It was produced by the late Elena "Leni" Holliman for Yellowstone Public Radio, of Billings, Montana, and broadcast five days each week during the bicentennial observance, from May, 2004 through September, 2006.

An extensive revision and expansion of the original short page on the flags the expedition carried is Early Flags of America. It now consists of two pages, The Expedition's Flags," and "Flags of Allegiance."

The "Credits" link has been extensively revised. Photos and biographical sketches are now linked from the names of the officers of the Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation. In addition, the names of contributing authors (scroll down about the length of one page) have been linked to the site's search utility. Clicking on a highlighted name will bring up a list of the author's articles as well as other references to his or her name in Discovering Lewis & Clark®

The new "Share" item near the bottom of the "Discovery Paths" menu is a small pop-up that gives options for emailing the page you are currently reading, bookmarking and printing the page, and adding the page to various social networking sites. If you use any bookmarking and networking services, you'll recognize the icons in the pop-up menu when you simply place your cursor over "Share."

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n a single long page about the two pirogues that bore the Corps, we poked around in the historical boneyard of boats and tried to fathom the meanings that Spanish word carried, both then and now, and how the expedition's journalists used it.


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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)