William P. Sherman Lecture Series
(11/06/04 - 11/20/04)

November 13th: Carolyn Gilman will discuss artifacts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - how she found them and where they are today. Gilman is Special Projects Historian at the Missouri Historical Society. For the last seven years she has been curator of Lewis and Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition which is currently touring nation wide. She compiled the Lewis and Clark Catalog which accompanies the exhibit. She also is the author of Native American and Western History.

November 20th: Oregonian - Roger Wendlick discusses collecting Lewis and Clark materials. After eighteen years of collecting books about Lewis and Clark, Wendlick donated the collection to the Lewis and Clark College. The collection is believed to be the finest about the expedition ever collected by a single person. Some of the 1,200 individual pieces are quite rare. The collection includes all editions of the journal kept by Sargent Patrick Gass. Wendlick's quest began with a plate his mother left him from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Trade and Oriental Exposition in Portland. Wendlick is a semi-retired construction worker of Portland. . .These lectures are presented by the Portage Route Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation

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Directions: The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center can be reached by following the brown Interpretive Center / State Park signs in Great Falls. 1/4 mile from Giant Springs; 1.5 miles east of Black Eagle Dam.

William P. Sherman Lecture Series
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center, Great Falls, MT 59403

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