Notably absent from this account are the Rocky Mountains. It's one of the major holes in the story, and a chief feature that has led some historians to question the tale. Lewis and Clark also had ...

Each year around the Fourth of July, in a vale in the Rocky Mountains ... The Western fur trade began after the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1805–06. In 1825 the first annual trappers ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition first made their way up ... He went on to christen the awe-inducing canyon "the Gates of the Rocky Mountains" due to the fact that he considered it the entrance ...