Meriwether Lewis

The Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?...

I'll Have Another cut loose down the home stretch to run down favorite Bodemeister and win the 138th Kentucky Derby on Saturday. The winner, with a finish of 2:01:83, took in nearly $1.5 million of the $2.2 million purse. Dullahan, with 12-1 odds,...

Our book club reads a wide range of titles, frequently about nature. We meet in the Sterling Morton Library, which contains 28,000 books, 12,000 artworks and several hundred nursery catalogs. "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau brought on one of our best...

Author and historical impersonator Clay Jenkinson debut his newest work at the Crystal Lake Public Library Friday before two weekend performances at the Raue Center …...

1743: George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' had its London premiere. 1806: Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east. 1966: Northwestern Bell Telephone announced that...

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HURON - Iroquois native John Madison is the new livestock Extension educator for Beadle County. He began his duties on Jan. 24. A 2006 graduate of Iroquois High School, he received his bachelor of science degree from South Dakota State University in...

The first time I was at Lake Compounce, I stared up at it in amazement as I sat on an inner tube floating along Anchor Bay's lazy river and wondered what it would be like to explore it. The next time I saw it — with a hawk perched on top of a tall,...

An Evening with Meriwether Lewis and WGN's John Williams - Thursday - June 25 - click here for details.

I am drawn to the captains. My relationship with Lewis and Clark began years earlier when I first read their journals. I gained a measure of these men and came to like them as people. I am continuously compelled to walk in their footsteps, so once again...

We broke camp early and headed south, following the Yellowstone River. Then, taking a quick jaunt through western Wyoming we tacked our ship, pointed it west and followed the Pacific sun. This is my last write chronicling this Montana adventure, a...

It may be the Show-Me state but Missouri representatives apparently saw too much email from activist Brenda Shoss and the group Kinship Circle. The animal activists were responsible for hundreds of emails, the Associated Press reports, that urged the...