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.

* 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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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ), was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific coast undertaken by the United States.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition established relations with two dozen indigenous nations.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition gained an understanding of the geography of the Northwest and produced the first accurate maps of the area.

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* Timeline of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

* The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 13-Volume Set, edited by Gary E. Moulton, 2002 – ISBN 0-8032-2948-8

* Lewis and Clark Expedition, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary

* The Lewis & Clark Expedition: Documenting the Uncharted Northwest Name, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

* Lewis and Clark Expedition

* Interactive Google Map of Lewis and Clark's Expedition Zoom in on the actual locations Lewis and Clark explored as you digitally walk up the Missouri River.

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Plans were also set forth for several missions to explore and chart the territory, the most famous being the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 ) traveled up the Missouri River ; the Red River Expedition ( 1806 ) explored the Red River basin ; the Pike Expedition ( 1806 ) also started up the Missouri, but turned south to explore the Arkansas River watershed.

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This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

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.

Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.

Doddridge County was created in 1845 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counties, and named for Philip Doddridge ( 1773 – 1832 ), a distinguished statesman of Western Virginia, who spent the greater part of his life in Brooke County, West Virginia.

Along with Johnny Cash ( who left early ), Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Presley spent more than an hour singing gospel, country and rhythm-and-blues songs while a tape rolled.

Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merritt Parkway.

Camp Dubois where Lewis and Clark spent the winter before beginning their famous expedition

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

* Gib Lewis, a Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, spent his formative years in Cleveland.

Lewis spent World War II in the United States and Canada.

Lewis also spent three years ( 2000 – 2003 ) as a guitarist with the reformed Electric Prunes, contributing to the band's Artifact album ( 2002 ).

Uncomfortable typecast as a boogie-woogie and blues pianist, Lewis spent his later years playing rags and old-time pop songs.

* Lewis Carroll spent long holidays here, and first met Gertrude Chataway on the beach.

Llandudno has a link with Lewis Carroll ; because the family of the " real Alice " regularly spent holidays at their holiday-home Penmorfa, later the Gogarth Abbey Hotel and recently the Penmorfa Hotel ( destroyed 2009, ignoring public protest ) on the West Shore of Llandudno.

Joseph Bell, publisher of the novel, spent half of his essay Impartial Structures on the Poem Called “ The Pursuits of Literature ” and Particularly a Vindication of the Romance of “ The Monk ” defending Lewis ; Thomas Dutton, in his Literary Census: A Satirical Poem, retaliated against Mathias and praised Lewis ; Henry Francis Robert Soame compared Lewis to Dante in his The Epistle in Rhyme to M. G. Lewis, Esq.

Most notably, Bear Stearns executive Cy Lewis had rejected repeated proposals to form a dedicated investment fund within Bear Stearns and Lewis took exception to the amount of time spent on outside activities.

He spent his early years with his parents, Lewis Fleming and his second wife Margaret Seton, on their St. Johns River plantation, " Hibernia.