LibGuides: St. Louis History: Lewis and Clark Expedition

General Information

Discovering Lewis & Clark
A nineteen part cyber history site maintained by the Lewis and Clark Trail Foundation.
Fort Mandan and the North Dakota Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center
North Dakota Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Foundation.
Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Thomas Jefferson's involvement in the Lewis and Clark Expedition and other historical information from the historic site at Monticello.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
From the University of Nebraska, this site includes the full, searchable text of the expedition journals along with maps, images, and audio excerpts. Other resources include video from an interview with Gary Moulton (historian and editor of a published edition of the journal articles) and full text of several books and articles about the expedition.
Lewis and Clark state by state guide
Listing from the National Park Service.
The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-One Members and a Composite Diary of their Activities from all Known Sources
Biographies of the 51 members of the expedition.

Native American Contributions
Lewis and Clark: Wooing the Sioux
An excerpt from the Lewis and Clark for Dummies dealing with various tribes along the Trail.
Sacajawea Interpretive Cultural and Educational Center
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho.
The United States Mint: the life of Sacajawea

Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Lewis & Clark: National Historic Trail
National Park Service.
Maps of the Expedition
A search in the Library of Congress American Memory Project.
Lewis and Clark Trail
Includes maps, travel information, history, journal entries, and lesson plans.

200 years later, geologist re-orients Lewis and Clark's compass readings
Washington University geologist investigates the changes to the compass since the Expedition.
The Volcanoes of Lewis and Clark
The United States Geologic Survey.