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Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Mountain Press. ISBN 978-0-87842-477-1. Paul R. Cutright & Paul A. Johnsgard (2003). Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists (2nd ed.). University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6434-2. V. C. Holmgren (1984). "Birds of the Lewis and Clark journals". We Proceeded On. 10 (2–3). Lewis and Clark Trail ...
It is the site of Lewis and Clark's first contact with Native Americans, and the monument includes statues of them in addition to Lewis, Clark, and Seaman. A carved wood statue, "Capt. Lewis and Seaman", is located in Gladstone Park, Wausa, Nebraska. [21] Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Sioux City, Iowa
One of Thomas Jefferson's goals was to find "the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." He also placed special importance on declaring US sovereignty over the land occupied by the many different Native American tribes along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.
Lewis, Clark, York, Sacagawea, and dog Seaman, statue by [[w:Robert Scriver]], in the [[w:Lewis and Clark National Historic Interpretative Center]], Great Falls, Montana Items portrayed in this file depicts
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker crow, is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae, native to the mountains of western North America. The nutcracker is an omnivore, but subsists mainly on pine nuts , burying seeds in the ground in the summer and then retrieving them in the winter by ...
Today, the Jefferson River retains much of its scenic beauty and wildlife diversity from the days of Lewis and Clark, yet is threatened by water use issues and encroaching development. The Jefferson is a segment of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail , administered by the National Park Service .
The 1804 journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition note that in September 1804, they "discovered a Village of an animal the French Call the Prairie Dog". [6] Its genus, Cynomys, derives from the Greek for "dog mouse" (κυων kuōn, κυνος kunos – dog; μυς mus, μυός muos – mouse). [7] The prairie dog is known by several ...
In 1805, the Klickitat were encountered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lewis and Clark found them wintering on the Yakima and Klickitat Rivers and estimated their number at about 700. In the early 1850s, the Klickitat Tribe raided present-day Jackson County, Oregon from the north and settled the area.