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Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery
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the lewis and clark journey of discovery includes: | Symposia
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Our Lewis and Clark pages are in the process of being converted to our new web site. We are adding new links every day but it will be some time before this page is complete. If you need information immediately that is not yet live please contact us.
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Thomas Jefferson's Grand
Idea . . .
. . . Lewis and Clark's Great Adventure
". . . the object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent for the purposes of commerce . . ."
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Welcome to Jefferson National Expansion Memorial's Lewis and Clark pages!
Click on links below to explore the Lewis and Clark pages.
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Corps of Discovery
Learn about the people involved in the journey! Here we have short biographical sketches of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, York, Sacajawea, Toussaint Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau "Little Pompey", and all the other members of the expedition.
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The Journey
Learn about the journey of the Corps of Discovery. This section contains information about the native people that the Corps encountered, fossils, geography, mapmaking, science of the expedition and a photo album of places, plants and animals described in the journals.
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Timelines
The timelines in this section provide a chronological overview of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They chronicle the major events of the expedition from April 20, 1803 to September 23, 1806.
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Circa 1804
The city of St. Louis in 1804 as Lewis and Clark would have experienced it. Explore this section to see the layout of the city and learn more about the buildings that used to stand on what is now the Gateway Arch grounds.
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Activities and Kids Section
Here you will find games for younger explorers, quizzes for all explorers, wallpaper for your PC and Macintosh, and lesson information for teachers and instructors.
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Teacher Resources
Teacher resources on the Lousiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark Expedition. Here you will find curricula for K-12, information about what education was like in the Lewis and Clark era, and a curriculum built around Patrick Gass' journal.
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Did You Know?
Land for the Historic Old Courthouse was donated in 1816 by Judge John Baptisite Charles Lucas and St. Louis founder Rene Auguste Chouteau.
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Last Updated: December 13, 2007 at 15:01 EST |