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Lewis and Clark Today Route

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

A new bike route, stretching from the Missouri/Iowa border north to the Iowa/South Dakota border, is planned and could begin taking shape as soon as early 2018. Known as the Lewis and Clark Today Route, the path will trace along the Missouri River, just as the Lewis and Clark Expedition did over 210 years ago, using existing trails and low-use city, county and state roadways. The 209-mile project is backed by the Iowa Department of Transportation and the National Park Service.

The route will make the Missouri River Valley and the Loess Hills more accessible to bicyclists. Read more from the Sioux City Journal: http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/sioux-city-northernmost-stop-on-iowa-s-first-state-bike/article_a7b094b2-760d-54f3-a45c-9358dd75d590.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

Jean Baptiste LePage

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

It’s been a while since we looked at one of the men of the core Corps – those who made the trip from Fort Mandan to the Pacific. Today, we’ll look at Jean Baptiste LePage.

LePage was a newcomer, joining the Expedition at Fort Mandan, replacing Private John Newman who was court martialed and dismissed in 1804. Born on August 20, 1761 in today’s Kaskaskia, Illinois, he was a French-Canadian fur trader who lived among the Hidatsa and Mandan. Since he’d already traveled farther up the Missouri than most whites, his knowledge was valuable to the Captains, so they enlisted him on November 2, 1804.

He’s not mentioned much in the journals and even on his day of enlistment Captain Lewis just described him as of “no particular merit.”

LePage’s life after the Expedition was also uneventful, it seems. He married, but the date and name of his spouse is unknown. Supposedly, he had five children, but that’s questionable if he didn’t marry until after he returned with the Corps. Because it’s believed he died in late 1809 in St. Louis (estate probate proceedings are documented there in July 1810), it’s possible, but doubtful he was able to father five children in three years. 




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The Flow Of Information Was A Little Slower

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

For those of us who have read the journals of Lewis and Clark or the others, we know that nearly every stream or river west of Fort Mandan was named by the Captains. Yet today, few of their names appear on current maps. Why is that?

It’s probably due to the fact of how long it took for the journals to be published and distributed. Trappers and miners who came after the Expedition in the early 19th century also gave the rivers names, not realizing that Lewis and Clark had already named them. 

For example, today’s Monture Creek in Montana was originally named Seaman’s Creek after Lewis’s pet dog.

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Documentation of Biota West of the Mississippi River

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

One of Thomas Jefferson’s goals for the Expedition was to document much of what the men encountered throughout this newly acquired section of North America. In today’s Lewis and Clark 101 post, we’ll look at the plants and animals documented along the journey. 

The Captains wrote about and described at least 120 mammals, birds, reptiles and fish during the 28-month journey, many of which had not been documented before. They seemed to be most amazed at the bison, the grizzly bears and the tiny black-tailed prairie dogs (one was captured and sent back alive to President Jefferson).

Over 180 plant species were recorded and collected, including information about habitat, growth and uses by the American Indians.
The explorers discovered about 80 species new to science, including future state flowers for Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Their collections formed the basis for the first major scientific publication that described and illustrated the plants west of the Mississippi River.

Clearly, the Expedition was more than a sightseeing mission to satisfy the curiosity of the new nation – it was one of scientific exploration.

Learn more about #LewisandClarkNHT National Park Week events: https://go.usa.gov/xXS59

#LewisandClarkNHT101 #LewisandClarkNHT#LewisandClark 

Trail Ridge Road

From Rocky Mountain National Park:

Rocky 101 - Scenic Drives: RMNP is home to Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuously paved road in the country taking you to 12,183 ft above sea level! Trail Ridge opens, weather permitting, the weekend of Memorial Day. There are many other opportunities to take a scenic drive in the Park, from Bear Lake Road, to the drive up the Kawuneeche Valley, to the Peak to Peak Scenic byway! Heed all traffic signs and make sure to fully pull off the road in a safe location when taking pictures. #NPS101 #FindYourPark




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Mountain Finder Plaque at Toll Memorial along Trail Ridge Road

From Rocky Mountain National Park:

Rocky 101- Plan a Trip: Planning ahead will help make the most of your RMNP experience! Helpful tips are coming on weekdays, arriving very early in the morning or coming later in the afternoon to have a better chance of finding parking. Take all the proper supplies with you including food, water and sunscreen. Know before you go, and check in with weather, road status, trail conditions and hours of operation prior to your visit. Rocky is a busy place and planning ahead will help you have a wonderful experience. #NPS101 #FindYourPark

(Photo Mountain Finder Plaque at Toll Memorial along Trail Ridge Road by VIP Ann Schonlau)sl 





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Dignity

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Last September, South Dakota’s newest landmark was unveiled along the banks of the Missouri River, outside Chamberlain. It’s a 50-foot statue depicting a young Native American woman, made entirely out of stainless steel, weighing about 50 tons. It was created by Black Hills artist Dale Lamphere. 

Lamphere says the piece, titled “Dignity,” represents “the pride and strength and durability of the native cultures.” He says he worked with three Lakota models in the process of creating the statue, which stands high above Interstate 90. The $1 million project was paid using the generous donation of a Black Hills philanthropist.

Here’s a KELO News story on the statue:http://www.keloland.com/news/article/news/dignity-statue-a-gift-to-the-people-of-south-dakota. 

The Kerchief or Bandana

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

As the weather warmed, the headwear of the men of the Corps obviously changed. In our short series about the hats of the Expedition, today we’ll present what was likely worn by some of the men from spring through fall – the kerchief or bandana. 

The kerchief played several roles – on cooler, windy days, it was used to tie a more traditional hat with a brim to the man’s head, possibly covering his ears from the sting of the air. When the heat of summer set in, bandanas helped keep the sun off their heads and ears, and when dipped in the river, provided periods of coolness. Bandanas were also a limited form of bug protection. Blue, it seems, was the most popular color.

Several references in the journals mention the men trading “handkerchiefs” to the Indians, who also wore them as bandanas.

This painting is a small portion of a mural by artist Gary R. Lucy for the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Southeast Missouri State University. 




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Tower Creek Pyramids

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

In August of 1805, the men of the Corps passed along the Salmon River in what is today eastern Idaho. On a small tributary (today it’s Tower Creek), they spotted an area of unique rock formations which they thought resembled pyramids. Captain Clark wrote, “passed remarkable rock resembling Pirimids on the Left Side”

You can visit the Tower Creek Pyramids Day Use Area and see these strange formations for yourself. Head north out of Salmon, Idaho on Highway 93 for approximately 10 miles. Turn east onto Tower Creek Road and continue for about two miles. 

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Wild Grape Jelly

#Saturday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

There are at least 80 different references to grapes throughout the journals. Every journal writer mentions the fruit multiple times, with the first entry on May 30, 1804, when Patrick Gass wrote while the men were encamped in Osage County, Missouri: “Here the soil is good, with cotton wood, sycamore, oak, hickory, and white walnut; with some grape vines, and an abundance of rushes.” 

For most Americans, wild grape jelly would have been a treat. Even though making jelly is a relatively easy process, but does require sugar which would have been a luxury for most in the early 19th century.

Here’s a simple recipe, if you’d like to try making your own:

You’ll just need two pounds of wild or domestic grapes and two cups of sugar to make about three cups of jelly. First, mash the grapes in a large saucepan. Bring it to a rolling boil and continue for 15 minutes. Strain the juice through cheesecloth or dishcloth and you’ll have about 1.5 cups of juice. Combine the juice and sugar and bring to a rolling boil again, this time holding for 20 minutes. Skim any residue from the top and pour the mixture into three, 8-ounce jelly jars. Cover and store in the refrigerator, or freeze. Then enjoy on a slice of homemade bread! 




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Maple Sugaring Day

#Thursday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Celebrate Maple Sugaring Day, this Saturday, April 8, at Fort Stevenson State Park, North Dakota. The event, in its third year, will give everyone an opportunity to see how to make maple syrup – from tapping box elder trees for sap to boiling it down to make the syrup. (Did you know that box elders are members of the maple family?) A free-will pancake and sausage breakfast will be served, so you can taste the freshly made, pure syrup on the spot! Hours will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fort Stevenson State Park is on the shores of Lake Sakakawea, just south of Garrison, ND. 




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Ionia Volcano

#Wednesday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Unless you’re from Nebraska, you’ve probably never heard of the Ionia Volcano. 

On August 24, 1804, the men of the Expedition traveled up the Missouri River, passing a bluff that caught their attention. Clark wrote that it appeared to be on fire and still very hot: “we Set out at the usial time and proceeded to the Commencement of a blue Clay Bluff of 180 or 190 feet high on the L.S. Those Bluffs appear to have been latterly on fire, and at this time is too hot for a man to bear his hand in the earth at any depth.”

Later, fur traders frequently noticed dense smoke and fire in the area. In 1839, J.N. Nicollet attempted to prove that the phenomena were not of volcanic nature – he theorized that the decomposition of beds of iron pyrites in contact with the river water resulted in a heat capable of igniting other combustible materials (a reaction similar to what happens in those little pouch hand warmers we often use today).

But prior to Nicollet’s theory, early settlers continued to refer to the bluff as Ionia Volcano, giving it the name based on the nearby village of Ionia. An earthquake in 1877 aroused new fears of an impending volcanic eruption and in 1878, the Missouri flooded and eroded the bluffs with a large section falling into the river. The flood nearly destroyed the village of Ionia and volcano “stories” soon died out after the Ionia post office closed in 1907.

Ionia was located northeast of present day Newcastle, which is about 15 miles south of Vermillion, South Dakota. 




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Sheheke-shote

#Sunday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

As the men of the Corps passed by the Mandan villages on their way back to St. Louis in 1806, Captains Lewis and Clark convinced Sheheke-shote to join them to St. Louis, and then travel on to meet President Jefferson in the capital. Known by the Europeans and Americans as White Coyote, Sheheke was the prominent civil chief of the lower or principal Mandan village from 1804-1812. 

His wife, Yellow Corn, and their children, traveled with him, along with a translator, Rene Jessuame. First stop was St. Louis, then it was on to Charlottesville, Virginia, and finally to Washington to meet “The Great Father.”

The family’s return would be hampered by numerous delays, including incidents involving intertribal war, but the 36-month trip finally came to an end and the chief and his family were reunited with their Mandan people in September 1809. Even though some of his tribe thought he was too friendly with the whites, and others didn’t believe his fabulous stories of what he saw and experienced in the east, he remained chief until his death as a part of a Sioux attack on the Mandan villages in 1812.

This portrait of Sheheke-shote is by Charles Saint-Memin and was likely painted during his time in Washington. 




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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were Both Masons

#Thursday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, like many men in leadership positions of their day, were both Masons. But Lewis clearly embraced the Masonic philosophies to a higher degree than did Clark. 

Lewis, at age 22, first joined the Door to Virtue Masonic Lodge #44 in his home of Albemarle, Virginia. He quickly rose to Royal Arch Mason, held office in the lodge and promoted charitable activities for the men to become involved in.

After returning from the Expedition, he became reinstated with the Masons at his earliest opportunity. He was then governor of the Louisiana Territory in St. Louis and in 1808, helped found St. Louis Lodge #111 and became its first “Worshipful Master.”

He continued his close ties to the fraternity – and even carried this Masonic apron with him on his fateful trip back to Washington in 1809. It was found neatly folded in the pocket of his coat when he died, stained with his blood. The apron, something each Mason received to wear during meetings and rituals, was recovered by Lewis’s family and eventually ended up as a treasured artifact of the Grand Lodge in Helena, Montana. 




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Dolley Madison's Support of the Expedition

#Wednesday

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Still basking in the gain of the Louisiana Territory, most Americans of 1803 were proud of the incredible expansion of their new nation and waited eagerly to hear from the men of the Expedition as they explored the vast new territory with the goal of finding a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. 

According to Cokie Roberts’ book “Ladies of Liberty,” the women of Washington had so understood the importance of this mission that they supplemented the paltry congressional appropriation with a fund-raising drive, spearheaded by future first lady, Dolley Madison. Dolley often assisted President Jefferson in community affairs and entertaining at the President’s House (which worked out well, since the Madisons actually lived with Jefferson during the first year of his first term).

As her niece Mary E.E. Cutts later recalled, Dolley had a huge heart, and believed that Lewis & Clark “could never return from that land of savages.” Determined to supplement the miserly congressional appropriation of $2,500 for equipment, she organized the ladies of Washington and conducted a fundraiser to provide the Expedition with sack cloth, candle wax, lamps and lamp oil, cooking spices, canned goods, dried goods, writing materials, clothing and silver cooking utensils.

According to Dolley’s niece, when Lewis returned to Washington in December 1806, he brought the surviving silver service to Dolley and regaled the ladies with tales of “hair breath escapes and marvelous adventures,” along with “as many specimens as they could bring from so far off in the wilderness!” 




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Fort Atkinson

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

The spot where Lewis and Clark set up camp near today’s Fort Calhoun, Nebraska was just a few dozen yards from the banks of the Missouri. Since then the river has shifted northeast about a mile. In July 1804 at this place, a site which later became known as Fort Atkinson, the Captains hosted the first official council between the United States representatives and the western Indians. For this reason, it’s often referred to as “council bluffs.”

The Yellowstone Expedition of 1819 established Fort Atkinson as the first U.S. military post west of the Missouri River, based upon the recommendation of William Clark. Between 1820 and 1827, the fort was home to the first school and library in Nebraska, became the gateway to the fur regions of the Upper Missouri and the Rocky Mountains, and served as the starting point for several early expeditions to the Mexican settlements of Taos and Santa Fe.

You can visit a reconstructed 1820 log fort at the site. The Harold W. Andersen Visitor Center is open daily May 27 – September 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on weekends May 6 – May 21 and September 9 – October 8. Special “living history weekends” with live interpreters are May 6/7, June 3/4, July 1/2, August 5/6, September 2/3 and September 30/October 1. For more information, go to:www.fortatkinsononline.org.

The fort is just outside of Fort Calhoun, about 15 miles north of Omaha. 

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Universal Access in Tucson

From Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail:

Masters of Landscape Architecture Students The University of Arizona are helping design for universal access in Tucson! They experienced the trail and the Santa Cruz River Park with the ASDB - Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind Orientation & Mobility teacher as the students do, to better inform their designs and project work.

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 — at Santa Cruz River Park. 

Long Stretch

From Federal Highway Administration:

It’s Throwback Thursday! Circa 1915 – “Long Stretch” of the National Old Trails Road near Frostburg, MD. http://ow.ly/tDCR309IveL

1904-05 Lewis & Clark Exposition Gold Dollar

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Does anyone have one of these? It’s the 1904-05 Lewis & Clark Exposition Gold Dollar. 

The unique gold coins are the first, and to-date only, two-headed U.S. coin. It features Captain Lewis on the front and Captain Clark on the reverse. They were first struck in September 1904 but held at the Philadelphia Mint until the opening of the Portland, Oregon national fair on June 1, 1905, where theywere first sold for $2 (the price was increased to $2.50 when word was spread that the 1904 issue was nearly sold out). Another coin was minted in 1905, with less fanfare. A total of 60,000 Lewis and Clark dollars had been struck, even though Congress had approved that up to 250,000 could be minted for the Centennial celebration.

The lackluster reception of the coins at the time of their release has virtually guaranteed their rarity today. Some collectors say these coins are the rarest gold dollars in a commemorative series. So if you have one, keep it in a safe place! 




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The Remains or Accounts of any (animals) which may be Deemed Rare or Extinct

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

In his Expedition instructions to Meriwether Lewis, President Jefferson asked the Captain to be on the lookout for “the remains or accounts of any [animals] which may be deemed rare or extinct.” During the journey, the men found only a few fossils.

Today you can do a lot better! At the Fort Peck Interpretive Center and Museum, east of Fort Peck, Montana, you’ll find Peck’s Rex, a fleshed-out model of the actual Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered 20 miles southeast of the city in 1997. There are lots of other interesting things to see in the area, too – including the Fort Peck Lake, Dam and Powerhouse, and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.

The Center opens in April, on Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. From May 1 through September 30, it’s open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, go to: https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Charles_M_Russell/visit/visitor_activities/FPIC.html 




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Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track Across the Western Portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean: by Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6.

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

March Mapness goes back to the archives today – a throwback to a time when men were men and maps were drawn on parchment! 

From the vaults of the Library of Congress, we present a “Map of Lewis and Clark’s Track Across the Western Portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean: by Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6.” This gorgeous document was originally created in 1814 by William Clark. It was copied by Samuel Lewis and published that same year by Bradford and Inskeep of Philadelphia. The size of the original is approximately 30 x 70 cm (12” x 28”).

If you’d like to view this map in detail on your computer, go to https://www.loc.gov/item/79692907/and download one of the high-resolution files (as large as 101 MB). You’ll find the download choices just below the map image.

#MarchMapness 

Speer Boulevard cloverleaf interchange

From Federal Highway Administration:

It’s Throwback Thursday! 1958 – View of the Speer Boulevard cloverleaf interchange by Denver Valley Highway (I-25) in Colorado. #TBThttp://ow.ly/yDhB309VHba




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Magnificent Elephant Butte Dam

From Bureau of Reclamation:

This week we are highlighting the Upper Colorado Region; and our #DamoftheWeek is the magnificent Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.




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Sergeant Charles Floyd

From Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail:

Nearly all of the members of the Corps have had at least one natural feature named in their honor, as a memorial to their role in the Expedition. 

However, Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only member to die during the journey, has several memorial namesakes, all in Iowa. There’s a small, 112-mile river in the northwest corner of the state that flows into the Missouri River, and the bluff upon which he is buried in Sioux City, overlooking the river is named for him. In northcentral Iowa, you’ll find Floyd, Iowa, a small town of about 325 residents, which can be found in Floyd County -- both of which are curiously over 200 miles from the Missouri and site of the Sergeant’s grave. 




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