Encounters on the Prairie SD Chapter of L&C Heritage Foundation

12/29/2017

Lewis & Clark activities in 1805 courtesy of our friends at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail.

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

09/20/2017

Encounters On The Prairie, South Dakota Chapter of the Lewis & Clark Trail Heritage Foundation’s Annual Business Meeting and Election of Board Members is Announced for this Saturday, September 23rd in Fort Pierre

All Encounters On The Prairie, South Dakota Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation members and those interested in Lewis and Clark History are invited to the Annual Business Meeting and election of Board Members.

The meeting will be held at 9:00 A.M., this Saturday, September 23rd concluding @ 10 A.M. in the Board Room of The AmericInn in Fort Pierre, SD. Hot Coffee & Tea is provided by Butch Johnston, AmericInn General Manager.

All current members and those interested in joining are encouraged and invited to attend this important meeting. Please direct questions to Chapter President, Bill Stevens @ Cell #280-2135.

09/15/2017

More terrific information from our friends at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

08/20/2017

From our friends at the South Dakota State Historical Society.

Sergeant Charles Floyd was the only member of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery to die on their 3 year journey. He succumbed to appendicitis on August 20, 1804 near what is now Sioux City, IA where a monument marks his grave. The Corps of Discovery would continue on into what is now South Dakota and were in the state from August 21st until October 14th 1804

07/21/2017

Thanks to the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail office for sharing this poster! The eclipse is coming up in early August and what better place to view it than from the L&C Trail!

One month away!!

07/20/2017

As many of you already know, the two boat cruises had to be postponed due to circumstances outside the control of EOTP or our project partner, the South Dakota State Historical Society.

Both trips have been rescheduled to:

Friday, Sept. 22, boarding at 5:30 p.m., leaving at 6 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 24, boarding at 11:30 a.m., leaving at noon.

Each will depart from Fischers Lilly Park, and offer the same program as before. Each will be approximately three hours in duration.

We hope to see you all then!

07/01/2017

The Friday evening cruise has already filled, but a second cruise on Saturday morning has been added:

Brunch Cruise

Enjoy fiddle music, a re-enactor portraying riverboat captain Grant Marsh and brunch on Saturday, July 15th during a three-hour cruise aboard the Sunset. Boarding begins at 9:30 a.m. CDT from Fischers Lilly Park in Fort Pierre, 10 a.m. launch. $35 per person. Call 773-6346 by July 7 to reserve a spot on the boat.

06/22/2017

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11/09/2016

Mark your calendars now! The EOTP Chapter's Annual Meeting & Board Election will be held from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre, located ay 900 Governors Drive. Be a part of history while working to preserve the physical manifestations as well as the memory of one of our nation's most important historical events - the Journey of Lewis & Clark.

10/13/2016

Tonight's previously scheduled meeting of the Encounters on the Prairie board has been postponed. Watch this space for details on when it will be rescheduled.

09/28/2016

The next meeting of our EOTP Chapter has been scheduled for Thursday, October 13th at 7:00 p.m. at the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.

09/24/2016

This from our friends at the National Museum of American History.

Today in 1806: The Lewis and Clark expedition returns to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest.

Meriwether Lewis began to purchase scientific and mathematical instruments for the expedition beginning in spring of 1803. From Philadelphia instrument maker Thomas Whitney, he purchased three pocket compasses for $2.50 each, and this silver-plated pocket compass for $5. It has a mahogany box, a silver-plated brass rim that is graduated to degrees and numbered in quadrants from north and south, a paper dial, two small brass sight vanes, and a leather carrying case. Whether Lewis purchased the silver compass for himself or intended it as a special gesture for William Clark is not known.

By the time they returned to St. Louis in September 1806, few of the instruments that were purchased for the trip had survived the journey. The pocket compass, however, was kept by Clark as a memento. He later gave the compass to his friend, Capt. Robert A. McCabe, whose heirs donated it in 1933 to the Smithsonian Institution.

See other compasses in our collection: http://ow.ly/S1P8302DqNr