William Clark
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William Clark was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in pre-statehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Mi
Portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1810
"Candlefish" or "Eulachon" (Thaleichthys pacificus) art is the first ever documentation of this species in a Lewis and Clark Expedition journal on February 25, 1806.
Portrait of Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1810
Clark family plot at Bellefontaine Cemetery
York (explorer)
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York was an enslaved man who was the only African-American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804–1806. A lifelong slave and personal servant of William Clark, York participated in the entir
York statue at Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere, Louisville, Kentucky
"Explorers at the Portage", by Robert Scriver, in the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretative Center, Great Falls, Montana. Left to right: York with a rifle, dog Seaman, Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea and her infant, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau.
Lewis and Clark meeting the Mandan Indians, by Charles Marion Russell, 1897. Left to right, Lewis, Clark, and York. Sacajawea and her child are seen from the back, in the foreground.
York is in the canoe on the right, which is quite different from the Indian canoe on the left. Louis and Clark on the Lower Columbia, by Charles Marion Russell, 1905.