Click on the following links for a .pdf file of the papers presented at the Bicentennial Symposia. These papers are presented for educational purposes and all copyrights are owned by the authors of the papers. 

"Ancient Cultures of the Middle Mississippi" - Bill Iseminger, Archeologist and Director, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois

"An Archeological Overview of the People of the Upper Missouri" - W. Raymond Wood, University of Missouri - Columbia

"Colonists and Colonizing in the Illinois Country" - Margaret Brown, Prairie du Rocher, Illinois

"Etienne de Vénard, Sieur de Bourgmont A Timeline" Dan Hechenberger, Director of Education, Nipundikan

“The Forgotten Years: William Clark's Post-Expedition Career.” William Foley, Professor Emeritus of History, Central Missouri State University

"Lewis and Clark and their Neighbors at Fort Mandan" W. Raymond Wood, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia

"Louisiana, as Seen from Through Spanish Texas" Juan Romero de Terreros

"The Louisiana Purchase Treaty" Ralph Lewis

"The Medical World of Lewis and Clark." David J. Peck

"Meriwether Lewis: Selected and Implanted by Nature." Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs

"Missionaries and the Mississippi River Valley" - Rev. William Barnaby Faherty, Director, Museum of the Western Jesuit Missions, St. Louis

"Piece-by-Piece: Reconstructing the Lives of Women in Colonial Missouri" Susan Calafate Boyle, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain National Park French and Indian

“Scrim Shots: Sidelights of the History of the Expedition.” Joseph Mussulman

"They Get Nothing But Caresses": Resentment of the Osage in the Late Eighteenth-Century Mississippi Valley" - Kathleen DuVal, University of California - Davis

"Thomas Hutchins and the Proposed Expedition to the Pacific" F. Terry Norris, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

"Trade, Presents, and Mixed Results: The Spanish Relationship with the Quapaw and Osage Indians at the Arkansas Post, 1762-1804" Carmen González Lopez-Briones, U.S. Embassy, Madrid, Spain

“William Henry Harrison and the Louisiana Purchase.” Robert M. Owens, Iowa State University

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