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Corps of Discovery II: 200 Years to the Future is a bicentennial commemorative exhibit led by the National Park Service. The exhibit was designed to give visitors of all ages an overview of the original 1803-06 Lewis and Clark Expedition and a look at life along the trail since the expedition concluded.
The exhibit draws on many people to bring the exhibit to life: American Indians, historic military and frontier re-enactors, artists, mapmakers and storytellers.
Corps of Discovery II includes a museum or visitor center display, a performance venue, a 33-foot long keelboat and a 16-foot diameter Indian lodge or tipi. The exhibit is mobile but requires a 75,000-pound tractor trailer rig and auxiliary fleet of trucks and SUVs to transport tents, displays, a library and National Park Service rangers.
Corps of Discovery II opened in January 2003 in Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson near present-day Charlottesville, VA. During its four-year tour, Corps II will visit more than 100 communities across 18 trail states, the District of Columbia and other off-trail communities in the United States.
By the halfway point of the tour, nearly 300,000 people had visited Corps II.
President Jefferson sent the exploration commanded by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on a voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean in 1803. Their journey, maps, journals and natural history specimens derived from it, plus the stories of the American Indian nations the expedition visited make Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Volunteers for Northwestern Discovery the first American epic.
Corps of Discovery II is a stand-alone exhibit but it also supplements local and national observances along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The arrival of Corps II is an opportunity for citizens to explore our nation's history, including the history of American Indian nations and other minority groups, and ourselves. Corps II is an opportunity to think about our nation's future and wonder where we want to be in 200 years.
Corps II is a collaborative effort involving more than 25 federal agencies, 40-plus American Indian nations, dozens of state and local agencies, private and nonprofit organizations and thousands of individual volunteers. The National Park Service provides major funding, transportation, and staff through the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, based in Omaha, Nebraska.
The central feature of Corps of Discovery II is the 'Tent of Many Voices.' This 200-seat auditorium is a venue for living history, cultural arts demonstrations, folklore, music and dance, readings from the expedition journals, panel discussions and more. Programs reflect a spectrum of nature, culture and history topics of particular interest along the Eastern Legacy of the Lewis and Clark Trail and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
Tent of Many Voices presenters come from American Indian nations, the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, US Geological Survey, US Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, US Fish and Wildlife Service as well as state and local agencies. Local, regional and nationally-recognized historians also visit Corps II and the Tent of Many Voices.
To learn more about the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail please visit these web sites:
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail www.nps.gov/lecl.Discovery Expedition of St. Charles www.lewisandclark.net .Jefferson National Expansion Memorial www.nps.gov/jeff .Federal Interagency Lewis and Clark Partnership www.lewisandclark200.gov .National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial www.lewisandclark200.org .Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation www.lewisandclark.org .Peter Kiewit Institute www.lewisandclarkgnet.org
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Corps of Discovery II 2005 Tour
, Lolo, MT 59847
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