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unusual facts about Lewis and Clark



Astor Expedition

The Astor Expedition of 1810-1812, was the next overland expedition from St. Louis, Missouri to the mouth of the Columbia River after the Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and Clark.

Eriophyllum lanatum

Lewis and Clark saw Eriophyllums growing above their camp on the Clearwater near present day Kamiah, Idaho.

George Drouillard

George Drouillard (Shawnee) (1773-1810) was a civilian interpreter, scout, hunter, and cartographer, hired at the age of 20 for Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase in 1804-1806, in search of a water route to the Pacific Ocean.

Methye Portage

The Methye Portage was also used by Sir Alexander Mackenzie on his exploratory expedition to the west coast, an expedition which reached the Pacific Ocean in 1793, fully 12 years before the more famous Lewis and Clark expedition.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

Shackleton Energy Company

The human element of the project includes the development of an "industrial astronaut corps" that would select for individuals who have many of the characteristics of previous explorers—such as Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Hillary and Lewis and Clark—"bold vision, determination, independence, leadership, execution and capability necessary to undertake a non-terrestrial industrial venture. Those human qualities are very necessary" to what Shackleton intends to do.


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Centrocercus

In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.

Kathlamet people

Queen Sally's Spring in Cathlamet, Washington is named after the former head of the Kathlamet people, who told stories about her memories of Lewis and Clark as a young girl.

Lewis and Clark Bridge

Lewis and Clark River Bridge, spanning the Lewis and Clark River, in Clatsop County, Oregon

Intercity Viaduct, also named officially the Lewis and Clark Viaduct since 1969, spanning the Kansas River

Lewis and Clark Expedition

The route of Lewis and Clark's expedition took them up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific via the Columbia River, and may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.

Omaha Symphony Orchestra

In 2002, under the baton of then-Music Director Victor Yampolsky, the orchestra performed the world premiere of Philip Glass's Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark).

Paul and Win Grace

They also performed music of the Lewis and Clark voyage with 3 other musicians, including Bob Dyer, as the Discovery String Band.

Pearson Field

; 1905 : Lincoln Beachey pilots the dirigible Gelatine from the grounds of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition on the shores of Guild's Lake in Portland, Oregon to Vancouver Barracks in the first aerial crossing of the Columbia River.

Sam C. Ford

Ford died in Helena on November 25, 1961, and he is interred at Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana USA.

Sam Cardon

Sam Cardon is a composer whose credits include 15 large-format films:"Titans Of The Ice Age", "Mummies", "Mystic India", Texas, The Big Picture, "Forces Of Nature", Lewis and Clark,The Legendary Journeys, Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure, Mysteries of Egypt, Olympic Glory, Whales, Building the Dream at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California; Treasure of the Gods at Zion National Park, Utah and The Secret of San Francisco at Pier 39.

The Landlord's Game

In a 2004 episode of PBS' History Detectives (title: Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane), the show investigated a game board belonging to a Delaware man, having an intermediate version of a game combining elements of The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.

Warren Rovetch

Rovetch then went on to establish Columbia River Properties and developed an environmentally-based education and conference center on the Lewis and Clark Water Trail of the Lower Columbia River.