Pictorial Features
What Did Lewis and Clark Know About the Columbia River and When Did They Know It?
By David Nicandri
There were only two "known" facts about the Columbia River in the minds of Thomas Jefferson
and Meriwether Lewis when the venture that became known as the Lewis & Clark expedition
was launched, and one of those was mistaken. View a slideshow of maps illustrating this topic.
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Maya Lin to Create Sculptures for Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
The renowned creator of the Vietnam Memorial will do four sculptures for the Lewis and Clark Confluence Project.
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The Chinook on the Columbia
Artwork by Steven Tobeck
The Chinook Tribe engaged in a vital series of encounters with the Lewis & Clark expedition beginning in November 1805. The interpretive drawings in this article, resulting from historical research, appear here courtesy of Chinook tribal member, artist Steven Tobeck.
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The Independence Hall of the American West
By David Nicandri
The vote at "Station Camp" was a remarkable occurrence in American history—an expression of pure democracy that the rest of the nation took many years to match.
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Lewis & Clark and the Mountain of Mystery
By David Nicandri & Gary Lentz
Historians Gary Lentz and Dave Nicandri have teamed with surveyor Rob Stratton to pursue of one of the leading mysteries of the Lewis & Clark story in Washington: Where was William Clark when, on October 18, 1805, he saw a conical mountain bearing southwest?
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