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The Lewis and Clark Expedition has been compared to the trip to the moon, but, surely, the Corps of Discovery harvested a far more magnificent bounty: the geography of soaring green mountains and immense golden plains; living collections of frightening wild animals and a treasure-trove of new plants; and startling artifacts of unique human ...
On April 7, 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Fort Mandan for points west, beginning the process of "filling in the canvas" of America. This exhibition features the Library's rich collections of exploration material documenting the quest to connect the East and the West by means of a waterway passage.
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America presents that struggle in a century of exploration, starting in the mid-eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. The exhibition draws on the Library's rich collections of exploration material to feature the trek of the Corps of Discovery as a culmination in the ...
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Apr 10, 2019 · The text explained that the Lamar Valley supported a remnant of the vast wildlife herds that once roamed North America” above which was the placard’s title, in large letters: AN AMERICAN EDEN. And so it seemed to any visitor who didn’t know the place’s history.
They ended their journey in the state of North Dakota, in the month of October Lewis and Clark: The Garden of Eden Outcome The outcome of the exploration of the Great Plains led to multiple new animal encounters (coyotes, prairie wolves, jackrabbits, antelope, and prairie dogs),
You heard a lot of this early on in the Bicentennial, that before Lewis and Clark, the West was the Garden of Eden, environmentally and culturally, and then Lewis and Clark came. The expedition represents a kind of disastrous wave that shattered and engulfed the American West.
