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Buckley, Jay H. “Exploring the Louisiana Purchase and Its Borderlands: The Lewis and Clark, Hunter and Dunbar, Zebulon Pike, and Freeman and Custis Expeditions in Perspective [Part 2].” We Proceeded On 47, no. 1 (February 2021): 12-22.

- by Jay H . Buckley
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- Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark Expedition

Eleven specimens in the Lewis and Clark Herbarium of The Academy of Natural Sciences have been sampled for biogeochemical studies-fatty acid and stable-isotope composition (delta^13C and DELTA^13C) of leaf tissues. These specimens are the earliest plant collections from the continental interior American Northwest, predating the Industrial Revolution that instigated dramatic changes in the chemistry of the world atmosphere. Comparisons are made of the preservational qualities of the Lewis and Clark specimens and modern collections, showing that the Lewis and Clark specimens are well-preserved at microscopical levels and thus are well suited for exploring their uses in biogeochemical analyses. This study demonstrates that herbarium specimens can provide data that are satisfactory to reconstruct temperature records from times and places for which climatological and other records were not kept, using biochemical proxies for growth temperature. The use of historic herbarium specimens with well-documented collection information (date and locality) can be used toward interpreting regional atmospheric chemistry, which can be applied to studies on larger geographical scales. Such forensic biogeochemical botany substantiates further the modern value of older collections in ways that were unimagined when the specimens were gathered. This is one of three complementary articles on the history, conservation, and use of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium.

- by Earle Spamer
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- Botany, Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry (Ecology), Lewis and Clark

History. What is ‘history’? Is it simply a ‘record of past events’ as my Collins Concise Dictionary suggests? What about past events which aren’t recorded? Are they still part of history? And whose record counts? Does mine? Does yours? Which one is the most accurate, and more importantly, whose account is right? As I embark on research for my novel, Legacy, strands of which are historically based, I have begun to ask the questions which all writers of historical fiction must ask.

- by Loree Westron
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- Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, American History, History, Writing and Memory

Paper tells about members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Corps of Discovery who had significant life experiences during the War of 1812. The war is defined as beginning with the 1807 Embargo Act and ending with the Treaties at Portage des Sioux in 1815. Paper also includes persons closely associated with the Corps of Discovery who had War of 1812 experiences. Paper begins with an overview of the war followed by brief biological sketches of over thirty people. Paper concludes an appendix on Presidential involvement in the war along with a bibliography and list of recommended sites.

- by Lorna Hainesworth
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- Lewis and Clark

The Lewis and Clark Herbarium contains 222 specimen sheets bearing the plant specimens collected during the historic journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1804-1806. This paper briefly describes the history of the collection and its storage conditions over the past two centuries and documents the special methods and materials with which the storage conditions of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium have been modernized. This was possible through a grant from the National Park Service through the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and matching grants from the private sector, as part of the Save America's Treasures program. These improvements included placing each specimen sheet in a custom-designed housing with a recessed well and Mylar backing sheet, such that direct physical contact with the specimens will be minimized in future studies and exhibitions. Custom metal cabinets and temperature and humidity controls were put in place to provide additional protection for the specimens. Details of these improvements are provided so that historians, curators, and researchers will have a clear picture of the status of the collection at the time of these renovations, and the rationale for the enhancements. The renovations safeguard this national treasure, which has tremendous scientific as well as historical value. The new facilities and materials will provide needed protection for the specimens as the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition approaches, during which time a number of specimens will be exhibited to the public. This is one of three complementary articles on the history, conservation, and use of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium.

- by Earle Spamer
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- Botany, Museum Collection history, Lewis and Clark, History of Botany

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia holds the Lewis and Clark Herbarium, containing 222 sheets of pressed plants collected during the explorations led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This constitutes 96 percent of the plant specimens known to survive from the first exploration of the Louisiana Territory and the uncharted realm of the American Northwest in 1804-1806. The herbarium is an "American Treasure," a recipient of federal and private sector funding in the Save America's Treasures program, to preserve it for future uses and to make the information it contains available to all. It is a working scientific collection, which has attained the status of a national icon for its association with the famous explorers. Conservational efforts in the herbarium are the culmination of nearly two centuries of varied use and storage of these plant specimens, providing for their continued viability as a unique historical and scientific resource. The history presented here focuses upon the plants after their arrival from the field, from 1805 to 2002. New information is gleaned from archival records and other primary sources. This is one of three complementary articles on the history, conservation, and use of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium.

- by Earle Spamer
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- Museum Collection history, Lewis and Clark, History of Botany

This thesis investigates the potential to use bulk element, trace element, and lead isotope characterizations to differentiate historic lead artifacts based on type and recovery location and to explore the potential to determine the... more

- by Jamie Lockman
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- Lead Isotope Analysis, Lewis and Clark
- by Richard McCourt and +1
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- Lewis and Clark, History of Botany

PowerPoint presentation, 36 slides. From the information provided within this presentation, it appears reasonable to suspect that: 1. The journey of a native American, Moncacht-Apé, played a role in Jefferson’s instructions to Meriwether Lewis. 2.The journey of Moncacht-Apé did affect the cartographic picture of North America on a number of maps between 1758 and 1785. 3.Whether the story of Moncacht-Apé’s Journey is true, half truths, or lies does not detract from the fact that this story had embedded itself into the written literature and cartographic lore that helped define the “images or patterns of belief about the nature and content of the Northwest” at this time in history.

This autumn is a closing time of a three year period of commemorative activities in the USA to revive the memory of the times 200 years ago, when two explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark leading the Corps of Discovery explored, surveyed and mapped then unknown lands between the Mississippi and the Pacific coast. This is an excellent one-time opportunity for the readers of GeoInformatics to take a short voyage along the trail of this epic story and learn of the influence of a single map on the last two centuries of history of the USA and its nations.

- by Joc Triglav
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- Exploration History, Lewis and Clark

The Lewis and Clark expedition produced a series of journals of more than one million words, and in the two centuries since the expedition in 1803 to 1806 a flood of books and articles has detailed their travels and travails. In this paper we explore a neglected portion of the expedition: the labels and notes associated with the Lewis and Clark Herbarium, a collection of 222 dried, pressed plants housed in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia herbarium (PH). We also comment on an additional 10 specimens of Lewis that reside at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. This residue
of written records includes notes by Meriwether Lewis (primary plant collector on the expedition), Frederick Pursh (German botanist who fi.rst studied the plants), Thomas Meehan (Academy of Natural Sciences botanist who re-discovered the plants in Philadelphia after nearly a century of oblivion in storage), and several other nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century botanists and other researchers who have found occasion to annotate the specimens. The notes reveal insights into the collection, curation, taxonomy, and research uses of the Lewis and Clark Herbarium during the 200 years since Lewis made his gatherings. Much remains to be learned from a closer study of this little-examined part of the paper trail of Lewis and Clark.

- by Richard McCourt and +1
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- Botany, Museum Collection history, Lewis and Clark, History of Botany

Buckley, Jay H. “William Clark, the Southern Plains Fur Trade, and the Santa Fe Trail.” Proceedings of the 2015 Fur Trade Symposium, Bents Fort and the Southern Fur Trade (La Junta, CO/Denver, CO: Bent’s Old Fort National Historic... more

- by Jay H. Buckley
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- Fur Trade Studies, Lewis and Clark, Fur Trade, Santa Fe Trail

Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 33.1 (2000): 39-57.

- by Holger Kersten
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- Lewis and Clark, Literature of Travel and Exploration

The Lewis and Clark expedition was camped at Pillar Rock on the Columbia River on November 7th 1805, and some historians have interpreted Clark's writings as to suggest they could see the Pacific Ocean from there. This paper demonstrates that a view of the Ocean from Pillar Rock is not possible. This article was published by the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Foundation in their journal "We Proceeded On", May 2009.

- by Jamie Ryan Lockman
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- Geography, Lead Isotope Analysis, Lewis and Clark
- by Jay H. Buckley
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- Lewis and Clark
- by Jay H. Buckley
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- Blackfoot, Fur Trade Studies, Lewis and Clark, Fur Trade

This chapter raises the question of what becomes visible when we center gender, race, colonialism, and sex as animating forces in the telling of Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery famous expedition. It narrates the fateful journey from the perspective of Sacajawea, a Shoshone young woman and captive servant, and York, an enslaved man, placing both of them alongside reproductions of sexual stories of the Corps, stories primarily proliferated in the late twentieth century. In taking this approach, the chapter also scrutinizes the construction of the archive, considering how the representation of York and Sacajawea in the sources illustrates a case of both invisibility and hypervisibility

- by Wanda S Pillow
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- American History, Indigenous Studies, Queer Theory, Gender and Sexuality

Nearly all of the natural history specimens now surviving from the Lewis and Clark Expedition across western North America in 1803-1806 are in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. These specimens encompass geology (two rocks and seven minerals), paleontology (one vertebrate fossil), botany (226 herbarium sheets), and herpetology (one specimen). This is a brief accounting only, but it is the first such summary ever of the Academy's Lewis and Clark holdings. Also included here are the first illustrations of the rock, mineral, and reptile specimens. Data accompanying the snake specimen indicate that it is from the expedition-an uncertain association-and this paper provides a circumspectual analysis of these data.

- by Earle Spamer
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- Botany, Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum Collection history, Lewis and Clark
- by Kenneth Haltman
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- Lewis and Clark, Albert Furtwangler