| On 200th anniversary of journey, a look back is a hard look at ourselves | |
 | ON THE MISSOURI RIVER (AP) -- With sunset light gleaming on his paddle, the young man in the old-fashioned military uniform pushes the canoe against a current as determined as the passing of time. |
| Rather than protesting, many Indian tribes embracing bicentennial | |
 | CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Before plunging his keelboat into the Missouri River and heading for Indian country, Meriwether Lewis sent his mother a parting letter, telling her not to worry. |
| Some bicentennial events along route of expedition | |
 | Events marking the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition will be held at hundreds of places along the transcontinental route. Below are ''signature events,'' designated by the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. |
| At trail's end, a historic vote that few remember | |
 | PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. (AP) -- No great crowds gather at the monument to democracy here. |
| Excerpts from expedition's journals | |
 | The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are many things -- legal documents, whose precisely drawn maps helped define U.S. boundaries; scientific reports, with detailed descriptions and even drawings of many previously unrecorded species; and literature of a uniquely American kind. |
| A thumbnail sketch of Meriwether Lewis | |
 | Meriwether Lewis was born Aug. 18, 1774, in Albermarle County, Va., a neighbor of Thomas Jefferson. He was an Army off |
| A thumbnail sketch of William Clark | |
| | William Clark was born on Aug. 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Va. He was a frontier militiaman and Army officer but had returned to his home near Louisvill |