Go West Across America
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/

Lewis and Clark, the great American explorers, need you to go on their historic expedition with them. You'll have to make important decisions along the way that will affect the course of your journey. This National Geographic site offers an exiting problem-solving journey.

Cool beaners.

I have been through Montana. It was a place discovered by Lewis and Clark. I could only immagine what those two must have thought when they first saw the Rocky Mountains!

Good stuff. It's an amazing story. There was a Brit who beat them using east to west trails up in Canada, I forget his name. The chronicles can be found out on the internet and are fun to read. I started reading about these guys after seeing Clay Jenkinson on local television. Jenkinson is some rhodes scholar who performs 1st person chatauquas on Meriwether Lewis. He knows a lot and it's great stuff. He comes to the Springs a lot. PBS does have some excellent web material on this. I'll dig up their link as well as Jenkinsons sight.

Lewis and Clark - Ken Burns/PBS (http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/)

Clay Jenkinson (http://th-jefferson.org/)

Jenkinson does 1st person performances on Thomas Jefferson as well. He's a respected scholar around here.

I have a few books of which my favorite is Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Simon and Schuster 1996).