Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery,
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807
Portrait by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1805
A historical marker outside present-day Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, where Lewis met with scientists and purchased supplies in May 1803 before the expedition
Meriwether Lewis National Monument located at milepost 385.9 on the Natchez Trace Parkway
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchas
Meriwether Lewis
…18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark. Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, establish trade with…
Portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) reconstruction, where the Corps of Discovery mustered on the east side of the Mississippi River, through the winter of 1803–1804, to await the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States
Corps of Discovery meets Chinooks on the Lower Columbia in October 1805 (Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia, painted by Charles M. Russell, c. 1905).
Reconstruction of Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark Memorial Park, North Dakota