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
George Rogers Clark was an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He se
William Clark
…Clark, served as a colonel during the war, rising to the rank of brigadier general in the Virginia militia years afterward. His second-oldest brother, George Rogers Clark, rose to the rank of general, spending most of the war in Kentucky fighting against British-allied Native Americans. After the war, the two oldest Clark…
Posthumous portrait by James B. Longacre, after John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1830
Depiction of George Rogers Clark recapturing Fort Sackville at the Battle of Vincennes on U.S. postage stamp, 1929 issue
Clark's march to Vincennes was the most celebrated event of his career; it has been often depicted, as in this illustration by F. C. Yohn.
Virginia Land Office warrant to Clark for 560 acres for having raised a battalion to fight in the Revolutionary War, January 1780