Merriwether Lewis

1774–1809

With William Clark, followed the Missouri river to its source, crossed the Rockies and followed the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.

Other Resources


Story Links
Book Links
Long Journey  in  Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans  by  Edward Eggleston
Lewis and Clark  in  America First—100 Stories from Our History  by  Lawton B. Evans
Lewis and Clark—I  in  Trails of the Pathfinders  by  George Bird Grinnell
Jefferson—How the Door Was Opened  in  This Country of Ours  by  H. E. Marshall
Bird Woman Meets Lewis in  Bird Woman —Guide of Lewis and Clark  by   James Willard Schultz


Image Links


Captains Lewis and Clark were much puzzled at this point
 in Trails of the Pathfinders

Mariwether Lewis
 in Opening the West with Lewis and Clark

That means she sees her own people.'
 in Opening the West with Lewis and Clark