Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

The Corps of Discovery encountered several different species of the sturgeon, one of the Earth’s oldest fish believed to have originated about 70 million years ago. Native to the Missouri and lower Mississippi Rivers is the pallid sturgeon – a fish that’s often called ugly or “prehistoric.”

This article details new scholarship related to Sacagawea. The text was provided by the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation Sacagawea Project board. For more information, please see the book “Our Eagle Woman, Sacagawea: They Got it Wrong by the Sacagawea Project Board of the Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara…

Big Medicine: York Outdoors is a 30-minute documentary produced by Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in partnership with NEW Multimedia.

Pittsburgh is the start of the Ohio River Valley. In 1803, that valley, and those it connected to, were diverse and interconnected places.

Before the Expedition, he had been William Clark’s personal manservant, but during the journey west York was much more – he worked side-by-side with the soldiers, interpreters, and French oarsmen who made up the Corps of Discovery. He hunted, he cared for the sick and afflicted, he entertained…