American history is full of wild tales of adventure, genuinely ludicrous achievements, and no small amount of super ...

Meriwether Lewis died in October 1809. Most researchers claim that he took his own life, but some debate that he could have been murdered. In October 1809, newspapers across the U.S. ran a startling ...

Click to open image viewer. To commemorate the bicentennial of the official launch of the Lewis and Clark expedition on May 14, 1804, a special 32-page prestige booklet, Lewis & Clark: The Corps of ...

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John D.W. Guice, emeritus professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi Nobody disputes that Meriwether Lewis died of gunshot wounds suffered on October 11, 1809, at Grinder’s Stand, an inn ...

The Kentucky Derby is a global sports spectacle and, in the eyes of many, America’s definitive sporting tradition. The event was forged, remarkably, by two of the great epic events in United States ...

U.S. Army Captain Meriwether Lewis, 2nd Lt. William Clark and their Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis to a hero's welcome after their epic journey to the Pacific Ocean on this day in history, ...

BALDWYN, Miss. (AP) — Clark Richey of Baldwyn has heard the legends of the Natchez Trace throughout the course of his lifetime, growing up just miles away from the 444-mile stretch of ancient land. “I ...

FARGO — One of the most challenging, dangerous and significant multiyear expeditions ever assigned to a young man occurred in 1801. That happened when President Thomas Jefferson authorized Meriwether ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. during an 8:00 p.m. (NASSCO), San Diego. adventure stories. California, will deliver the ceremony's principal address. from the families of Capt. Meriwether Lewis and then-Lt. Lewis ...

KING AND QUEEN — A new historical highway marker approved for King and Queen County will recognize early colonial immigrant John Lewis, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark expedition ...