Custer Battlefield Museum
Lewis & Clark Documents and Rare Books Exhibit
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1809 apocryphal text, written by Hubbard Lester,
one of the copies that were assembled and published without permission and
relied on letters and reports from secondary sources. It was deemed counterfeit,
however did wet the publics appetite for |
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Lewis & Clark journals that belonged to the publisher and 1st President of the Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle. The 3 volumes contain handwritten notes and several period newspaper articles and original steel plate engravings from the Department of Treasury, that were added by Biddle himself. |
Rare signature of William Clark
1901 Buffalo Bill ten dollar note that was used to promote
the Lewis
& Clark Centennial in 1905
Original
Steel Plate Engravings from the U.S. Treasury that were tipped into
Nicholas
Biddle's personal copy of the Lewis & Clark Journals.
Volume II of the Nicholas Biddle's personal copy of the Lewis
& Clark Journals.
The steel plate engravings of Lewis & Clark which have
been tipped into the Biddle Journals, along with an original newspaper clipping
of the obituary of Meriwether Lewis.