Resources

For those wishing to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, there are several useful guidebooks, each of which provides a different level of detail. The best three are:

• "National Geographic's Guide to the Lewis & Clark Trail" by Thomas Schmidt;
• "Traveling the Lewis & Clark Trail" by Julie Fanselow;
• "Along the Trail With Lewis and Clark" by Barbara Fifer and Vicky Soderberg.
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General background information about the bicentennial and other events associated with the expedition is available online from several sources.

• The National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council: lewisandclark200.org/
• National Park Service: www.nps.gov/lecl/
• Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation: www.lewisandclark.org/

Information regarding travel in the St. Louis area is available from the Missouri Division of Tourism, P.O. Box 1055, Jefferson City, MO 65102; www.missouritourism.org/

Information about the Lewis and Clark trail in Missouri, including a calendar of events associated with the bicentennial, is available from the Missouri Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission: lewisandclark.missouri.org/

Information about Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is online at www.nps.gov/jeff/index.htm

To learn more about the Gateway Arch or to purchase tram tickets in advance, visit www.stlouisarch.com/

An article about the controversy over the spelling of Sacagawea's name appeared in the Summer 1975 issue of "We Proceeded On," the newsletter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, and is available online at http://www.lewisandclark.org/pubart.htm.