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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Winter at Fort Mandan

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger website Discovering Lewis & Clark examines what life was like for the Corps of Discovery in the winter at Fort Mandan.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Marias River Decision

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger website Discovering Lewis & Clark explores the Corps of Discovery's time at the Marias River.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Preparations

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger Discovering Lewis & Clark site discusses Philadelphia, some of Lewis's friends and mentors such as Dr. Benjamin Rush, and military preparations.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Flags of the Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Hunters and Hunting

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger website Discovering Lewis & Clark examines hunters and hunting on the expedition.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: The 'Great' Falls

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of Discovering Lewis & Clark examines the 'Great Falls' which the expedition had to portage around during the westward leg of their 1805-06 exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Landmark the Bear's Tooth

For Students 9th - 10th
Nicholas King drew up a map in preparation for Lewis and Clark's expedition. View images and read descriptions of one of the landmarks in the Rocky Mountains, Bear's Tooth.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Missouri Headwaters

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents details of Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Three Forks in the early 1800s.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Technology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the role of technology in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: America in 1803

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger Discovering Lewis & Clark website explores in detail America in 1803 and delves into the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson, and political geography among other topics.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Holidays on the Trail

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger website Discovering Lewis & Clark examines how the Corps of Discovery celebrated three special days-Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Independence Day-with a mixture of traditions.
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PBS

Pbs: Lewis and Clark: Inside the Corps: To Equip an Expedition

For Students 9th - 10th
This site highlights a list of a sample of the items Meriwether Lewis began to collect for the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
A hyperhistory that takes the student on an interactive journey along with Lewis and Clark.
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Montana Kids: Lewis & Clark

For Students 3rd - 8th
Here you can find all kinds of great information about Lewis & Clark and their discoveries! Read biographies of Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea; find out about 23 major discovery points in Montana; and learn all about the plants and...
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Loc: Meeting of Frontiers: History of Expeditions Lewis & Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
The published version of Lewis and Clark's historic journey is reproduced here from the 1814 version. Page images allow the reader to see what the text originally looked like.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Discovering Lewis & Clark From the Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides images taken in the air of the Lewis and Clark trail. Select photos from the linked numerals on the maps, or from the titles listed sequentially beneath the maps for more detailed information on each stop.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Du Pratz's History of Louisiana

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of Virginia

Lewis and Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507 1814

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara

For Students 9th - 10th
From the journals of Lewis and Clark, read about the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes and people that they encountered on their expedition.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Measuring the Falls

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from William Clark's journals outlines the importance of the falls of the Missouri in the expedition of Lewis and Clark.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Peace Medals

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: K'useyneiskit: The Bitterroot Barrier

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the larger site Discovering Lewis and Clark describes in detail the Corps' journey between Packer Meadow and Canoe Camp in 1805.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Lewis's Friends and Mentors

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical sketches of some of the men that were involved in the expedition of Lewis and Clark.
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Discovering Lewis & Clark: Kansas Cities on the Kaw

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Lewis and Clark's exploration in 1804 of the area where the Kansas River joins the Missouri.