Lewis and Clark Resources: Books, Games, and Websites

Books:
The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, Roland Smith, Gulliver Books, 1999

Lewis and Clark: On the Trail of Discovery * A Museum in a Book, Rod Gragg, Rutledge Hill Press, 2003.

Lewis and Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, Paul Cutright, Nebraska Press, second edition, 2003.

The Lewis and Clark Trail: Then and Now, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dutton Children's Books, 2002.

Lewis and Clark for Kids, Janis Herbert, Chicago Review Press, 2000.

Games:
The History Channel: Lewis and Clark Exploration Card Game. Published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc., Stamford, CT 06902.

Lewis and Clark Adventure Game. Published by Painted Pony Press, and available through the bicentennial council's official website.

www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
index.html, one of many available that provides interactive games, a tour of the trail with extensive maps and pictures, and multi-level lesson plans.

General Websites:
www.lewisandclark.com, put together by Montana Magazine, includes Related Links ("An excellent resource for school assignments"), and an up-to-date Calendar of Events.

www.lewisandclark200.org, website of the National Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Council, offers up-to-date information about possible places to visit along the trail, and links to information about the many different tribes involved in the Lewis & Clark story.

www.lewis-clark.org, put together by the University of Montana, features "interpretive episodes" written by U. of M. professor Harry Fritz. It's a quick and easy way to find out about particular journal entries or locations along the trail. Very good graphics make it appealing to young students.

Boats:
www.keelboat.com offers a photo gallery of historic reproductions of the 55-foot keel boat and pirogues. Keel boats of this era were pushed, pulled, rowed, and sailed up the Missouri river. The red pirogue and the white pirogue were a form of longboat which closely resembled other small river craft plying the Missouri and Mississippi rivers in the early 1800s.

Maps:
http://www.lewis-clark.org/marias_2/map_king.htm
Library of Congress Map Collections – 1500-2003, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Mapping Instruments: http://www.nwrel.org/teachlewisandclark/free/billings/map_exped.html

Timelines:
http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/timeline.html
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/archive/time/index.html

Animals Discovered:
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/living/7.html