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Article: Get ready; Here come Lewis and Clark; The bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition is generating a national commemoration and reevaluation of American history and sense of place. For travelers following their trail, the possibilities are endless.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 13, 2003
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Byline: Catherine Watson; Staff Writer
Strange as it sounds now, Americans didn't go wild when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned from their epic journey to the Pacific.
"I don't think, when all was said and done, those people who lived in the 19th century thought that Lewis and Clark expedition was all that important," said Robert Archibald, a scholar of the American West and president of the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission.
The expedition - which left St. Louis in 1804 - is quickly approaching its bicentennial years. The monumental scope of the planned celebrations is a far cry from the national shrug that greeted ...
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