Transportation

Meriwether Lewis started his journey in Pittsburgh: he ordered a keelboat be made, recruited several men, and purchased and organized supplies for the long journey ahead.

In 1803, Meriwether Lewis visited this massive earthen mound, one of the largest earthworks from the Adena cultural tradition and the largest known conical mound in the Western hemisphere.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark held their first diplomatic meeting near here, with Otoe and Missouri leaders.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered a Kanza village at a stream they named Independence Creek and assumed it was abandoned. It was not. Its residents were just gone for the season.

Several French-Canadian and Métis boatmen joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition in St. Charles in 1804.

William Clark and many of the men who joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1803–1804 just east of St. Louis, at Camp Dubois.

When they reached the confluence of the Missouri and Marias Rivers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark needed to decide which river would take them to the Shoshone people and over the Rocky Mountains.

Sacagawea is one of the most famous women in American history. She lived at a Hidatsa village near here.

Did you know that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived at the Pacific Ocean just before a whale washed up on the Oregon coast?

Several members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter at a Clatsop-Nehalem Village near here, boiling ocean water to make salt for the return journey.