The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

* 1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

* 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

Concern over the American-backed expedition of Lewis and Clark prompted the North West Company to charge Thompson with the task of finding a route to the Pacific in order to open up the lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest.

Continuing down the Columbia, Thompson passed the barrier of The Dalles with much less difficulty than experienced by Lewis and Clark, as high water obscured Celilo Falls and many of the rapids.

Search efforts focused on Clark and Cowlitz Counties, encompassing the terrain immediately south and north, respectively, of the Lewis River in southwest Washington.

* Honorary Doctor of Laws, and Commencement Speaker at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland in May 2005

U. S. News & World Report has consistently ranked Vermont Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Pace University School of Law as the top three Environmental Law programs in the United States, with Lewis & Clark and Vermont frequently trading the top spot.

The environmental law reviews at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU and Lewis & Clark Law School are regularly the most-cited such publications.

* 1771 – Patrick Gass, American sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( d. 1870 )

* 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

In 1872, Col. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, traveled to England, visiting the Epsom Derby, a famous race that had been running annually since 1780.

The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.

After the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, noting it was a good place to build a fort.

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Lewis, Drouillard, and the Field brothers, fled over 100 miles ( 160 km ) in a day before they camped again.

Then on November 5, 1805, Lewis and Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President Thomas Jefferson.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, traveled and camped along the Columbia River shore in the area later known as Columbia County in late 1805 and on their return journey in early 1806.

In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on an island at the mouth of the Nodaway River.

On their return trip east, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Kamiah area for several weeks during the spring of 1806, waiting for snows to melt.

Lewis and Clark Expedition camped out near the location of today's city hall.

On July 26, 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis with George Drewyer ( Drouillard ), Joseph Fields and Reuben Fields camped with a party of eight young Blackfeet Indians.

Captain Meriwether Lewis followed the north branch of the Marias River, now known as the Cut Bank Creek and camped south and east of Cut Bank on Monday, July 21, 1806.

In 1806 Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on the city's present outskirts on the return trip east, following the descending Yellowstone River.

Lewis and Clark camped at the mouth of the Vermillion River near the present-day town on Friday, August 24, 1804.

Lewis wrote in his journals that they camped on the lower end of a handsome prairie two miles up from the mouth of Seal ( Washougal ) River and directly across from the upper Quicksand ( Sandy ) River channel.

Just downstream from the handsome prairie where Lewis & Clark and David Thompson camped there was a natural boat landing that later became known as Parker's Landing and played an important role for settlers following the Oregon Trail.

On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacagawea State Park.

In 1804, Lewis and Clark camped for three days at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers in present-day Kansas City, Kansas ( today recognized at the Kaw Point Riverfront Park ).

Lewis and Clark passed Cow Creek on May 26, 1805 after they had camped two miles below Cow Creek.

Weippe Prairie where the Nez Perce met Lewis and Clark in 1805 and where Chief Joseph camped in 1877 before crossing the Lolo Pass.

Lewis was attacked by the Shawnee Chief Cornstalk when he was camped at the Ohio River crossing at Point Pleasant.

Contract workers from the company Lewis Construction from Salisbury ( today's Harare ) in South Rhodesia ( today's Zimbabwe ) that built Nghweeze camped in an area that for this heritage is named the Lewis informal settlement.

William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.

Initial extrapolations placed Cooper's landing area on the southernmost outreach of Mount St. Helens, a few miles southeast of Ariel, Washington, near Lake Merwin, an artificial lake formed by a dam on the Lewis River.

The earliest specific aprisio grant that has been identified was at Fontjoncouse, near Narbonne ( see Lewis, links ).

Lewis and Clark, for whom the expedition became known, recruited the 45 men to accompany them, and spent a winter training them near St. Louis for the effort.

These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.

Major Lewis H. Brereton and his superior Brigadier General Billy Mitchell suggested dropping elements of the United States 1st Infantry Division behind German lines near Metz.

)), born near Stuarts Draft, was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 − 1806 ); best remembered for his 1807-1808 explorations as the first person of European descent to enter the region now known as Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons

A view of the Lewis County Middle School near Vanceburg from Kentucky Route 10 | KY 10

On July 4, 1804, to mark Independence Day, the Lewis and Clark Expedition named Independence Creek ( River ) located near the city of Atchison ( see Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ).

Charles Floyd of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who died in 1804 near what is now Sioux City, Iowa, and who was the only member thereof to die on the Expedition.

* Camp Lewis, near Battleground, Washington

Double Springs rests inside the William B. Bankhead National Forest, and is near Lewis Smith Lake.

The city of Kingman was named for Lewis Kingman, who surveyed along the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad's right-of-way between Needles, Calif., and Albuquerque, N. M. Lewis Kingman supervised the building of the railroad from Winslow, Ariz. to Beale's Springs, which is near the present location of the town of Kingman.

" Other Idiots from Arkansas ", a track from Lewis Black's The White Album, includes an alleged news story of two men who got in a truck accident near Cotton Plant when a cartridge used in place of an automotive fuse fired off.

A new high school near the intersection of Lewis Road and Las Posas Road is planned.

Hickory Hills is home to a satellite campus of Lewis University located near 95th street and Roberts Road.

Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803-1804 here, near what has been designated the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site.

A view of the Lewis County Middle School near Vanceburg from Kentucky Route 10 | KY 10

* Bicycle Facilities: Lafayette has a limited number of dedicated commuter and recreational bicycling facilities, including a bicycle lane on each side of Johnston Street from UL-Lafayette area at Lewis Street to near Ambassador Caffery, ending at Ridge Road.

Clark's party rejoined the Lewis party at the confluence with the Missouri River, near Williston, North Dakota.

It lies along U. S. Routes 89 and 287 ( the latter terminating at the former in this city ) about east of the Rocky Mountains, near Flathead National Forest, the Rocky Mountain Division of Lewis and Clark National Forest, and Glacier National Park.