Information & Links
We encourage you to visit this page often as it is constantly being updated with links that can assist you in your Lewis & Clark research and provides other sites of historical interest.
The Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation is based in Great Falls, Montana. We would like to urge any one with and interest in Lewis & Clark to become a member of the Foundation. Their quarterly publication alone is worth the price of membership and is an invaluable research resource.
Living History takes a lot of different forms, whether its Mountain Man/Trapper, Lewis & Clark, War of 1812, Civil War or World War 2. JP Finn covers everything from philosophy to the nuts and bolts for both the beginner and the seasoned veteran in The Mid America Buckskinners Info Page.
Fort Atkinson was established as the first U.S. military post west of the Missouri River by the Yellowstone Expedition of 1819, but it's story actually begins 15 years earlier with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The explorers first set up camp in the area on July 30, 1804, and held council with the Oto and Missouri Indians on August 3, 1804. That meeting gave the locale its name of "Council Bluff," and Clark later recommended the sit for the location of a fort. There, Fort Atkinson was built...
Butch Bouvier builds keelboats. His first was a reproduction of the one used by the Lewis & Clark Expedition. After a number of years of service at Lewis & Clark State Park in Onawa, Iowa, it was refurbished by Mr. Bouvier and his crew in time for the Festival in June 2000.
The National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council is the planning committee for the upcoming celebration in 2003. The 6th Annual Planning Workshop will be held in Omaha, Nebraska on April 24-26, 2001.
Other Links of Interest
Stuhr Museum Of The Prairie Pioneer has long been a top resource for the Westward Expansion period of American History. In recent years it has expanded it scope to touch on other periods including that of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
Friends Of Fort Atkinson is the Living History Program at Fort Atkinson S. H. P. which is located on the site of one of Lewis & Clark's Councils with the Native American Tribes in the summer of 1804. The program reproduces the life of the military post as it was from 1819 until 1827.
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