Word: lewises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Red Pirogue Lewis bought it, possibly in Pittsburgh, to lighten the keelboat's load on the shallow Ohio River. The 41-ft. craft was hidden with supplies at the Marias River in what is now Montana. Returning 13 months later, the men found the boat had rotted away
Lewis and Clark gave the Jefferson Peace Medal to Indian chiefs they met as a symbol of friendship from their new "chief" in Washington
Gray clouds move as low as smoke over the treetops at Lolo Pass. The ground is white. The day is June 10. It has been snowing for the past four days in the Bitterroot Mountains. Wayne Fairchild is getting worried about our trek over the Lolo Trail--95 miles from...
When Lewis surmounted Lemhi Pass, 140 miles south of Missoula, on Aug. 12, he was flabbergasted by what was in front of him: "immence ranges of high mountains still to the West of us with their tops partially covered with snow." Nobody in what was then the U.S. knew the...
Today their pathway through those mountains carries more mystique than any other ground over which they traveled, for its raw wildness is testament to the character of two cultures: the explorers who braved its hardships and the Native Americans who revere and conserve the path as a sacred gift. It...