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September 25, 2024

Lewis & Clark at Wickliffe Mounds

Join us on November 2, 2024 to learn about the Lewis & Clark expedition in our area and try your skill with feather quill writing, just like Lewis & Clark. Work on your Jr. Ranger activity booklet and earn your badge! Lewis & Clark coloring books and Native Names stickers available while supplies last. This is a free program from 10:00am to 3:00pm

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Save the Date! Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Ann

Save the Date! Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Annual Gathering September 14 - 17, 2025. Kansas City, MO#lewisandclark #lewisandclarknhp #lewisandclarktrail

Save the date! Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Ann

Save the date! Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Annual Gathering September 14 - 17, 2025 in Kansas City, MO

The seasons, they are a changing! The first phot

The seasons, they are a changing!

The first photo was taken at Packer Meadow on Lolo Pass in June 2023 during the LCTA Annual Meeting. The second was taken September 1, 2024. Most wildflowers have shifted to berries, bulbs, or seeds that provide food for wildlife and humans.

Lewis and Clark visited the site on September 13, 1805 and June 29, 1806, witnessing those seasonal differences. What they did not see was the intense wildfire smoke like that seen in the second photo.

The prevalence of fire in the American West’s summers has resulted in part from the suppression of natural fire cycles during much of the 20th century, turning forests into tinderboxes. This contrasts with Lewis and Clark’s observation of their Nez Perce guides setting fire to a mountainside during their recrossing of the Bitterroot Mountains on June 24, 1806.

Huge Thanks to Shannon K. for sharing this!

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Our new APP is now available. Enjoy the Lewis and

Our new APP is now available. Enjoy the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail on your mobile device. Scan the QR code.

Be sure to check out all of the cool events happen

Be sure to check out all of the cool events happening along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. Click this link to visit the Lewis and Clark Trail Experience
https://www.lewisandclark.travel/all-events/

Share your photos and stories from the Trail! The

Share your photos and stories from the Trail!

These photos were shared by Wayne W. a few weeks ago:

“The Missouri River Breaks Monument in Montana this past July - voyageur canoe trip with 2 crews.”

Thanks for sharing, Wayne!

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Some more information about Slaughter River from this section of the Monument (sourced from lewis-clark.org):

“today we passed on the Stard. side the remains of a vast many mangled carcases of Buffalow which had been driven over a precipice of 120 feet by the Indians and perished; the water appeared to have washed away a part of this immence pile of slaughter and still their remained the fragments of at least a hundred carcases they created a most horrid stench.” —Meriwether Lewis (May 29th, 1805)

https://lewis-clark.org/day-by-day/29-may-1805/

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Do you have pictures or personal stories from your time along the Trail?! If you do, please message the group with them for a chance to be featured in future posts!

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The Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Orderly Report

The Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance Orderly Report

The Orderly Report (TOR) is a quarterly newsletter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Alliance delivered via email to all Foundation members and others. The Orderly Report contains information about current events and happenings throughout the national Lewis and Clark community.

Please visit the website here: https://lewisandclark.org/tor/ to see past and current editions and to sign up/ subscribe!

“Along The Trail” Park Feature - Big Bone Lick

“Along The Trail” Park Feature - Big Bone Lick State Historic Site, Kentucky

https://www.nps.gov/places/big-bone-lick-state-historic-site-kentucky.htm

“Thomas Jefferson knew about this place and asked Meriwether Lewis to stop and collect some fossils and send them back.

Someone was already running the place as a tourist destination, so, Lewis had no trouble finding it. “Mr. David Ross of Virginia” decided before Lewis arrived that he did not want anyone taking anything from the lick anymore, probably because people had quickly taken most of the biggest fossils.

Lewis convinced a fellow collector, Dr. William Goforth of Cincinnati, to send specimens already excavated to Jefferson. William Clark returned to the site four years later to retrieve more fossils.”

Give it a visit if you can and be sure to also check out all the great, non-Lewis and Clark historical offerings that Kentucky has to offer!

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Share your photos and stories from the Trail! Thi

Share your photos and stories from the Trail!

This photo was shared by Norman N. a few weeks ago:

“Eagle Creek- L&C camp of May 31st 1805. The Morning sun never lets you down.”

Thanks for sharing, Norman!

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Some more information about Eagle Creek and the Corps’ campsite (sourced from lewis-clark.org):

“The day brings endless “seens of visionary inchantment” as they struggle to move through the White Cliffs area of the Upper Missouri River Breaks. When a tow rope breaks, Lewis once again mentions the white pirogue‘s “evil gennii”. After passing Citadel Rock and Grand Natural Wall, they camp at present-day Eagle Creek where Lewis notices a distinctive species of pine.”

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“As we passed on it seemed as if those seens of visionary inchantment would never have and end; for here it is too that nature presents to the view of the traveler vast ranges of walls of tolerable workmanship, so perfect indeed are those walls that I should have thought that nature had attempted here to rival the human art of masonry had I not recollected that she had first began her work.”
—Meriwether Lewis

https://lewis-clark.org/day-by-day/31-may-1805/

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Do you have pictures or personal stories from your time along the Trail?! If you do, please message the group with them for a chance to be featured in future posts!

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