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Jefferson's West: Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Web site on Lewis and Clark. It includes, a bibliography, essays, links and provides information on the celebration around the country.
Bibliography of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: An annotated bibliography dealing with the expedition. It includes, books, articles, Web sites, dissertations, and more.
Birds and Mammals Observed by Lewis & Clark in North Dakota: An online text of an article originally written for North Dakota History. It includes a list of birds and mammals found by the expedition in North Dakota.
Bring Back Your Party Safe: Medicine and Health on the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Learn about the health issues on the expedition. Sponsored by the Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.
Discovering Lewis & Clark: The Expedition: Get journal excerpts and a good overview of the expedition by Professor Harry W. Fritz of the University of Montana.
The Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: See the Native American objects from the expedition housed at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University.
Exploring the West from Monticello: Examine the exhibition of maps and navigational instruments at Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Online access from the University of Virginia to the famous journals.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online: This site makes available the text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton. Moulton's edition-the most accurate and inclusive edition ever published-is one of the major scholarly achievements of the late twentieth century. Initially offering almost two hundred pages from volume four, this website will eventually feature the full text of the journals-almost five thousand pages. Also included are a gallery of images as well as audio files of acclaimed poet William Kloefkorn reading selected passages.
Lewis and Clark Archive: A comprehensive list of over 600 Web sites, some broken down into various topics like education, genealogy, artifacts and archaeology, and others.
Lewis and Clark as Naturalists: In this site, you will be able to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, and discover the flora and fauna as they described iit along the way. You can either choose the interactive map, or browse the collection by category. Unless otherwise indicated, the collections you will see are from the National Museum of Natural History, and were not collected by Lewis and Clark. Sponsored by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Lewis and Clark Expedition Collections: Lewis and Clark College's description of its various collections, finding aids, and search a online citation database.
The Lewis and Clark Herbarium: Learn about the plant specimens collected on the journey, which are located at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation: The Web site of the organization that works to preserve and develop sites along the trial.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail: Information on the National Park Service's eleven sites.
The National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council: The organization behind the 200 year commemoration of the expedition and its legacy.
PBS Online: Lewis and Clark: The online companion to the PBS documentary of Lewis and Clark. Learn about the expedition, find classroom resources, and other information.
Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America: The Library of Congress' new exhibit of Lewis and Clark.

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