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Information about visiting Fort Mandan Historic Site is at www.fortmandan.com/fortmandan.html.

For more information about Daniel Slosberg, musician and impersonator of Pierre Cruzatte, visit www.cruzatte.com/ index.htm.

Clay Jenkinson, who impersonates Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and other historical personages, maintains a Web site at www.th-jefferson.org/.

Information about the 18th and 19th century fur trade, as well as those who re-enact and study it, is available from:

  • The Coalition of Historical Trekkers: www.coht.org/
  • Re-enactor.net: www.reenactor.net/
  • Buckskins and Black Powder of the Pacific Northwest: http://users.potlatch.com/bluethistle/bnb/index1.htm

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Washburn, N.D., is at www.fortmandan.com/lewisclark.html.

For more information about the Fort Berthold Reservation and the Three Affiliated Tribes, see www.mhanation.com/index.htm.

The best study of the relationship between the Lewis and Clark expedition and native tribes is "Lewis and Clark Among the Indians" by James. P. Ronda (University of Nebraska Press, 1984).

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.

General background information about the bicentennial and other events associated with the expedition is available online from several sources.

 
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