When Lewis and Clark led the Corps of Discovery toward the Pacific from St. Louis ... a very old man who had seen this land (before the ocean had eaten its way through), which went a long distance ...

A recent episode of the YouTube series “History Traveler” made me aware of a site in Illinois called Camp Dubois, where the ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...