University of Virginia
Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507 1814
An online resource from the University of Virginia Library. This exhibition includes maps, documents, and a great overview map collections from the first images of the New World to maps from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation: Lewis and Clark Expedition 1803 1806
A comprehensive site on the exploration of Lewis and Clark sponsored by the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation. Includes a history of the excursion as well as hyperlinks to other sites. One particularly enjoyable section in the...
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Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
This comprehensive resource works to promote, educate, and preserve the Lewis and Clark Trail across the United States. View videos, histories, biographies, and more through the foundation's site.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
National Park Services presents the general information, history, culture, science and nature of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Lewis and Clark
This resource describes how Lewis and Clark described various animals two centuries ago.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission
Explore Pa History: Lewis and Clark in Pennsylvania
Discover the role Lewis and Clark played in history of Pennsylvania in this detailed account. Contained within this site are links to video, maps, and pictorial images of this era.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Lewis and Clark
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), students read four documents that give different accounts of how Lewis and Clark treated the Native Americans they met on their expedition. Students are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Du Pratz's History of Louisiana
Read the story of Antoine du Pratz's History of Louisiana (1774) which was carried by Lewis and Clark on their expedition to serve as a guide for the kind of information Jefferson wanted the expedition to acquire.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Peace Medals
Discover the history of awarding peace medals to Indian chiefs. Lewis and Clark carried at least eighty-nine peace medals in five different sizes to be given out on their expedition in the early 1800s.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Geography
How did Lewis and Clark map the unknown lands? Learn how they marked the territory using mental mapping, Indian spatial concepts, and formal navigation.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Flags of the Expedition
Discusses the importance of flags in representing the identities of groups and countries. Presents a collection of early American flags, the Great Seal of the United States, the flags carried by the Lewis and Clark expedition, signal and...
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Tywappity Bottom
Features a description and history of Tywappity Bottom where Lewis and Clark arrived in November 1803.
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In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Journals of Lewis and Clark
The Lewis and Clark expedition is an amazing part of our history. To learn more about their fascinating journey check out this website. It features a journal entry made by Captain Lewis on August 24, 1805.
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Lewis and Clark trail.com: Montana
At this site retrace the journey once taken by Lewis and Clark as they travelled through Montana. Read a description of their adventure, follow the interactive map, and stop at the many points of interest along the way.
Read Works
Read Works: Mapping the West: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Lewis and Clark exploring the Louisiana Purchase. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Lewis and Clark Barter With Native Americans
In this lesson you will define the term barter and give examples of bartering in several different areas. Find out how this system took shape and was useful to Lewis and Clark. This site is extremely informative and contains extension...
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Cryptography
Learn about the origins and history of cryptology and how Thomas Jefferson urged Lewis to use a cipher to keep him informed about the progress of the expedition.
Oregon Secretary of State
Oregon Blue Book: Oregon History: Land Based Fur Trade and Exploration
A detailed overview of Oregon's early history, including the Lewis and Clark expedition and what it accomplished, and the development and decline of the fur trade industry.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: Our Land Our Home
This resource delves into the history of the Indian people on the Fort Berthold Reservation beginning in 1851 when it consisted of 12.6 million acres through 1960 when it consisted of only a few hundred acres.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Lewis and Clark, Louisiana Purchase
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 18 vocabulary words pertaining to Lewis and Clark and the Louisiana Purchase. It also provides lesson ideas, activities, and extensive vocabulary word lists on the topic.
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Tower 23: The Not So Well Known Adventures of Lewis and Clark
Here are some math problems to solve while learning about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Get across the continent and win a commendation.
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: Library Exhibit: Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
A virtual library exhibit which explores how the United States history and Indian peoples along the expedition route, came together over two hundred years ago, and how they remain intertwined today.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Lewis and Clark
By reading this section of a chapter on "Westward Expansion," students will be able to explain the significance of the Louisiana Purchase and describe the terms of the Adams-Onis Treaty and the role played by the filibuster in American...