Looking Back at Lewis and Clark

By Caleb CrainMay 25, 202620 min read

The explorers’ crossing of the continent is America’s most famous camping trip. What was it all for?

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Lewis and Clark’s Dog Helped Usher In a New Era of Pet Ownership

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National Geographic

How a trip to New Orleans radicalized young Abraham Lincoln

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The New Yorker

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Did a Rowdy English Nobleman Mastermind the American Revolution?

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Literary Hub

Villa Coco

Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty. I took the Baronessa’s comment to mean I was to wear my best clothes; of course I had packed only one jacket and tie, and that only because I imagined life

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