University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online Edition has been selected for inclusion on EDSITEment.neh.gov as one of the best online resources for education in the humanities. EDSITEment, with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the...
poop happens (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Though I had never met him in person, John Ruskey and I have known each other for several years long distance. I first noticed his picture in the local newspaper dressed in period costume during a book festival featuring the Lewis and Clark expedition. He and his paddling buddy Mike Clark had made the trip themselves just a few years earlier and knew the subject well enough to...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... scheduled later this year. Wood River boasts of being the starting point for the 1803-04 Lewis and Clark expedition but the city was not settled until more than a century later when Standard Oil Co. of Indiana built a refinery in an area along the Mississippi River where there had previously been only farms and railroad tracks. Standard Oil (later Amoco) was a generous corporate citizen....
NewWest.Net Missoula (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Canadian David Thompson is considered by some to be one of the shrewdest explorer-mapmakers to ever chart or trek a course. Following quickly on the heels of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Thompson is widely credited as being the first person to set up a commercial trading post in Montana, a northwestern business venture called Saleesh House. Several opinions have always existed relating...
New West Network Cities: Idaho Nort (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Canadian David Thompson is considered by some to be one of the shrewdest explorer-mapmakers to ever chart or trek a course. Following quickly on the heels of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Thompson is widely credited as being the first person to set up a commercial trading post in Montana, a northwestern business venture called Saleesh House. Several opinions have always existed relating...
University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
... with English marks. Spain immediately dispatched explorers to restore its claim. The Lewis and Clark expedition similarly made Discovery claims by branding trees and rocks in the Pacific Northwest. Today, though, one might think there are no “new” lands to find on planet Earth. But climate change is shrinking the Arctic icecap and opening access to new sea lanes, fisheries, oil fields...
University of Nebraska Press (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
New this month from the University of Nebraska Press: the first full-length critical study of Mildred Walker's major fictional works , a new paperback edition of Sports Journalist Allen Barra's collection of the greatest baseball debates of the last century , a paperback edition of The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition , plus much more. Read about all of our newest books...
A Ruach Journey (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
I am about halfway through “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen E Ambrose, a book about the Lewis and Clark expedition in the U.S. in the early 1800s. Lewis was a young guy but he enjoyed himself immensely as he made his way across the western United States on an exploration to the Pacific Ocean. Ambrose has [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... in the car waiting on the park rangers to open the gates to the Fort Clatsop area of the Lewis and Clark National Park system (there are 12 distinct sites that comprise the park). This is where the Lewis and Clark expedition wintered over after arriving at the Pacific Ocean. They recorded that they were pretty miserable the whole time, due to the weather. We can imagine. (But...
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
... who, according to feminist propaganda was a keen-eyed scout who basically led the whole Lewis and Clark expedition while still a teenaged mother. You may remember her being immortalized in coin by the U.S. government in 2000. Alas, the coin, like its predecessor, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, failed to cash in on feminist sentiment and is of interest now only to numismatists.Our intrepid...
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Brand New Set Of Blues, the 5th career CD for Williams & Clark Expedition has hit the streets and the airwaves with rave reviews! The band has been very busy talking with DJs across the country in promotion of the new project. ...
American Spectator (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
... who, according to feminist propaganda, was a keen-eyed scout who basically led the whole Lewis and Clark expedition while still a teenaged mother. You may remember her being immortalized in coin by the U.S. government in 2000. Alas, the coin, like its predecessor, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, failed to cash in on feminist sentiment and is of interest now only to numismatists.Our intrepid...
