A Lewis and Clark Report Card: The Phases of a Journey
Tuesday, September 16 2025
How did the Lewis and Clark Expedition stack up against the model for the classic journey? Clay makes his assessment.
- Published in Features
Four Perfect Days
Monday, September 08 2025
Clay and friends are just off four perfect days canoeing remote sections of the Missouri River in central Montana.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Assessing Two Years on the Road in My Airstream
Monday, September 01 2025
Clay assesses the good and bad as he wraps up his second season traveling America's byways in his 23' Airstream.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Drowning the Missouri River — Lewis and Clark on the Reservoirs!
Monday, September 01 2025
The Missouri was a wild, free-flowing river when Lewis and Clark began their epic western journey in 1804. Today, much of that river is a series of reservoirs.
- Published in Features
Sacagawea and the Blue Whale
Tuesday, August 26 2025
Sacagawea’s insistence that she be allowed to join the reconnaissance team heading to see the great beached whale is one of the rarest instances in the entire Lewis and Clark journey where we hear her voice.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
How Meriwether Lewis’ Unfortunate Hunting Mishap Brought to Mind the Bounty of American Consumer Capitalism
Saturday, August 16 2025
On the 221st anniversary of Meriwether Lewis’ hunting calamity, Clay ponders salt, macrobiotics, and an earlier extended personal journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
My Montana Summer
Monday, August 11 2025
Clay Jenkinson reports on his month-long adventure crisscrossing Montana in the long-since-passed footsteps of Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Hunting Rivers’ Sources on the Upper Missouri
Monday, August 04 2025
Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and Clay Jenkinson all share a fascination with the origins of rivers.
- Published in Features
The Quest for the Authentic on the Lewis and Clark Trail
Saturday, July 26 2025
As Clay Jenkinson leads his annual canoe trip through a remote section of the Missouri River, a sudden thunderstorm makes for dramatic challenges
- Published in Features
Meriwether Lewis’ Deadly Encounter
Tuesday, July 22 2025
Clay reports on his visit to the remote Montana site where Lewis and Clark had their only fatal encounter with Native Americans on their historic 1804-1806 expedition.
- Published in Features