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Facts and Articles
Click here to read an article about Struck By The Ree and find out more about him.
Check out Clarks original map that HE drew of the Missouri River from Sept 4-9, 1804.
(This is a large file,
about 500K,
it will take a while to download if on a dial-up connection)
Click here for a smaller version of the drawn map
Look at a Topographic Map of the same area from 1882 survey (also a large file)
Click here for a smaller version of the Topograpic Map
Learn more about the Iona Volcano. (This clipping from the Lewis & Clark Journals by Gary Moltin)
About Trudeau
You think you have a hard time packing. Imagine how Lewis
& Clark must have felt. Their keelboat was loaded with
thousands of pounds of supplies, equipment, food and trade goods.
Blue glass beads, brass buttons and cooking kettles were among
the most covered trade items that the carried. The Cultural
Heritage in Pierre, SD has a replica of a Jefferson Peace and
Friendship Medal, which the explorers often presented to the
tribal leaders they met.
The expedition’s first lady. Sacagawea accompanied the Corps of Discovery from Fort Mandan, ND, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. She was the only woman to make the trip, and she took here baby son along. Six years after their return, Sacagawea died at Fort Manuel near Kenel, SD. A monument to her overlooks the Missouri River near Mobridge.
Making a splash. The Missouri River was the expedition’s “highway” along the whole trail. Each day, they rowed, towed or sailed the keelboat up the river, and each night, they camped along its shores. At Lewis and Clark Recreation Area near Yankton, SD, you can rent a boat and explore the waters of Lewis and Clark Lake, on of four Missouri River reservoirs. At night, you can set up camp along the water, just like Lewis & Clark did.
Lodge sweet lodge. In October of 1804, the expedition spent several tranquil days with the Arikaras, who farmed the land along the upper Missouri River. The Arikaras lived in an earth-lodge homes made with cottonwood logs, willow branches and grass. You can see a replica of one at West Whitlock Recreation Area near Gettysburg.
Follow in their footsteps. Make your own adventure along Nebraska and South Dakota’s Lewis & Clark Trail. Highway markers keep you on the right roads, and a series of 12 interpretive panels tell the expedition’s story along the way.
Misc. News
NOTES OF INTEREST
There is a painting of
"Old Baldy" in the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE. It
was done by Karl Bodmer in 1831 when he accompanied the German
Lord, Maximilian, on a trip by boat up the Missouri River from
St. Louis, Missouri to Montana. Bodmer painted hundreds of
pictures for Maximilian on that trip. The paintings of Bodmer's
were found in a German castle after the second World War and they
were returned to the United States to be placed in the Joslyn Art
Museum.
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