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| The park is located about 2 miles off of I29, about 33 miles south of Sioux City. There are a bunch of summer houses also located here and the water was full of waterskiers and other boatring types. I was lucky enough to snap some pictures between passes. Sorry, today's history lesson will have to be short. The longest ride is today and I have to get going. |
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Someone by the name of Bruce Bourbeuax went to a lot of trouble to build an exact replica of the keelboat used by the expediditon as they headed up the river. The original was built to the specs of Lewis himself. There were a couple of additional boats called "pirogues" that were even smaller. You get a pretty good idea of how cramped people must have been.
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Believe it or not this is the Lewis and Clark Museum and Visitors Center in the Lewis and Clark State Park. It's operated by a nice old guy with really bad teeth. There are some sketches and historical stuff inside.
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This is the Floyd Memorial. Sergeant Floyd, who achieved imortality by being the only person in the Lewis and Clark party to die during the Expedition. Historians have generally agreed on Appendicitis as the cause. |
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| This is the view from the Floyd Memorial. I took the liberty of using PhotoShop to get rid of the civilizathin. This is what it might have looked like to the adventurers at the time. |
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