Travel up the Missouri River, retracing the path of the Corps of Discovery from Pierre on U.S. Highway 83, paralleling the path of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as you travel toward Mobridge. Reflect on the Missouri River’s role in shaping the history of westward expansion and the fur trade. Your first stop is the Sacagawea and Sitting Bull Monuments, offering stunning views of the Misouri River. Explore the legacy of Sitting Bull’s burial sites in Mobridge and Fort Yates, where tensions persist over the location of his final resting place. Continue to reconstructed Fort Manuel Lisa, an early trading […]
After leaving their first winter encampment at Camp Dubois across from St. Louis, Missouri on May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery under the direction of US Army Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made their way slowly but surely up the Missouri River. Day after day they fought the relentless current to make progress upstream averaging ten miles per day. As the weather began to get colder, they looked for a sensible place to establish their winter quarters. The Corps first encountered the Arikara (uh-RICK-uh-ruh) tribe living in three villages close by the mouth of the Grand River near […]
After leaving their first winter encampment at Camp Dubois across from St. Louis, Missouri on May 14, 1804, the Corps of Discovery under the direction of US Army Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made their way slowly but surely up the Missouri River. Day after day they fought the relentless current to make progress upstream averaging ten miles per day. As the weather began to get colder, they looked for a sensible place to establish their winter quarters. The Corps first encountered the Arikara (uh-RICK-uh-ruh) tribe living in three villages close by the mouth of the Grand River near […]