Lakewood Chamber of Commerce - Historical Info on Lewis & Clark

Lewis and Clark

Over the past few years many visitors to the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce have requested information about the expedition of Lewis and Clark. As a courtesy we have provided some general information and an associated link below.

"In 1803, Clark's army comrade, Meriwether Lewis, invited Clark to co-lead an expedition across President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. To prepare for the trip, Clark studied astronomy and cartography. He was responsible for the expedition's record keeping and map making.As a friend and former neighbor of the Lewis family, President Thomas Jefferson recruited Lewis to be his private secretary in 1801. For two years, Jefferson prepared Lewis to lead a group of explorers across the Louisiana Purchase. To prepare for the trip, Lewis studied navigation, plants, and animals at the University of Pennsylvania."

- Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

“I Killed a prarie wolf to day about the Sise of a Gray fox with a bushey tail the head and ears like a Fox wolf, and barks like a Small Dog- The annimale which we have taken for the Fox is this wolf, we have seen no Foxes,” Clark is describing a coyote.

For information visit: The Smithsonain Museum of Natural History

Read about "The Forgotten Trail" which is often forgotten in historial writings.