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Revealing the American West

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Lewis and Clark on the Columbian River. Global Gateway	Bear Dance of the Sioux. Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America Exhibition.	Shoshone men on horseback. American Memory	As it was in the old days. American Memory

Sacajawea, the bird woman. American Memory	In the Bad Lands. American Memory	Meriwether Lewis. Global Gateway	William Clark. Global Gateway

Jefferson’s Cipher for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. American Memory	Expedition Estimate. American Memory	Meriwether Lewis Pierre Chouteau, May 18, 1804, List of Specimens/ American Memory	William Clark’s Expedition notes, Head of Vulture. Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America Exhibition

Benjamin Rush to Meriweather Lewis, June 11,1803 Rules America’s Library	Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, July 4, 1803 American Memory	Louisiana Territory American Memory	A Map of the Discoveries of Capt. Lewis & Clark from the Rockey Mountain and the River Lewis to the Cap of Disappointment or the Columbia River at the North Pacific Ocean American Memory