The Boy Scouts were amazed at the strong response they had to the Lewis and Clark Awards Program. More than 800 boys earned the top award based partly on completing the levels of difficulty with rafting the Clearwater River in Idaho as the most difficult challenge.

Organizations, schools and communities nationwide commemorated the 200th anniversiry of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The official dates were 2003-2006. Join in the fun, education and adventure of the greatest expedition in American history with gifts from Woodland Gifts.

Our online and mail order Lewis and Clark gifts are high quality, and are just the thing for this anniversary celebration. Please browse our online catalog at your leisure, or request a print catalog.

Trivia Question: What does the Lewis & Clark Expedition have in common with San Diego?

In my research of "whatever happened to _________," I became interested in trying to figure out how to connect San Diego, California, my home town, to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This site is very elementary, but I wanted a place to gather my research, so here we go.... [go to site]

Lewis and Clark : Across the Divide
Carolyn Gilman, Forward by James P. Ronda

The official companion to the Congressionally mandated Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition.

Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark, two men shaped by Jefferson's Enlightenment ideas, encountered an Indian world they only partly understood. Their discoveries and the artifacts from their journey reveal the contrasts, similarities, and creative exchange of ideas that occurred when different worlds met each other face-to-face. Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide expands and transforms a familiar story by fully exploring—for the first time—the cultural landscapes the expedition traversed.

Exhibition curator Carolyn Gilman draws from fifty different lending institutions to reassemble for the first, and likely the last, time the authentic artifacts of Lewis and Clark's journey across then-Indian lands. The result is a breathtaking new view of both the equipment the expedition used and the color, complexity, and diversity of the cultures they encountered. Because of the fragility of artifacts, the book documents more fully than the exhibition itself the equipment Lewis and Clark carried and the rich diversity of what was collected in this historic encounter of two worlds. To complete the picture, Native Americans share their experiences since Lewis and Clark's visit and embrace a hopeful vision for the future. 410 color photographs and illustrations.

Center for Columbia River History

To fulfill its mission — promoting broad public discussions about Columbia River Basin History and its connection to the present — the Center for Columbia River History applies critical historical methodology, engages directly with Columbia River Basin communities, and through a number of special projects, creates educational public history products on-line, in print, and through public educational programs.

Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area proposed following the success of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, our congressional delegations are pursuing a National Heritage Area designation for the region of the mouth of the Columbia River region in Oregon and Washington. The "Destination: the Pacific" group is speaheading local efforts. The bills are S.257 and H.R.407. For more information, visit: Destination the Pacific.