President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars). Congress received a confidential message from Jefferson to outfit an ...

In a deeply researched, splendidly written biography (a part of which appeared in Smithsonian), William Clark and the Shaping of the West, Landon Y. Jones gives an impressive—if not always noble ...

most of which are named after brothers George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War general, and/or William Clark from the Lewis and Clark Expedition. No so for Nevada’s Clark County. Our county is ...

July 16. -- Congress man Joseph Dixon of Montana, at his home in Missoula, has obtained what he regards as indispuable proofs that the famous explorer William Clark was married to an Indian woman ...