Lewis & Clark Complete Their Mission

After 8,000 miles and over two years in the wilderness, the adventurers make their way home to St. Louis

Contemporary portraits of (L-R) Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

Meriwether Lewis and his devoted assistant William Clark made their return to St. Louis on September 23, 1806, completing one of North America’s most daring and incredible adventures, one that had begun in May of 1804. The land explored was so foreign and unmapped that President Thomas Je…