Hundreds Set Their Sights On Lewis-Clark Moment; Re-Enactment Shows Explorers Meeting Nez Perce

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WEIPPE, Idaho (AP) The re-enactment of the first meeting between frontier explorers Lewis and Clark and the Nez Perce Indian tribe was played out in a northern Idaho meadow with a cast of some 600 spectators joining in the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the historic moment.

The re-enactment Tuesday was part of the bicentennial trek of the Corps of Discovery through Idaho on their way west, retracing the steps taken two centuries ago by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. President Thomas Jefferson sent the explorers on the 1803-1806 journey to the just-acquired Louisiana Purchase to discover what the U.S. had bought, to learn about the inhabitants, to seek a water route to the Pacific and to catalog the plants, rocks, soils and animals they found.

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Hundreds Set Their Sights On Lewis-Clark Moment; Re-Enactment Shows Explorers Meeting Nez Perce

Re-creating what history has recorded of the Sept. 20, 1805,...

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