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You rock! -- ESP 00:27 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Clark

Who did William Clark marry?FroggyJamer 04:43, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

He married twice: Julia Hancock and then Harriet Kennerly Radford, outliving them both.

Help Please -- ESP 00:27 4 Feb 2006 (UTC)

What did they discover [other than animals] on the Corps of Discovery?????????

Can the rumour of sexual affairs be cited? I found no source on that. Moonmaiden103 12:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was an addition by an IP address know to be used by a vandal and has been removed. Kablammo 02:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation Page?

Someone requested that this page be moved to William Clark (disambiguation) because this is a disambiguation page. It's not and William Clark (disambiguation) is a disambiguation page already. joturn e r 18:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind; it was a mistake on the requestor's part. He meant William Clarke. joturn e r 18:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brittney Spears?

Okay, if someone is going to make the claim that "William Clark also has a distant cousin named Brittney (sic) Spears," you first need to 1) cite your reference and 2) learn how to spell. I recommend this line be deleted.

Silly sad machine 15:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was clearly vandalism. Americasroof 17:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Scottish-American?

I removed the description of Clark as "Scottish-American." I think in the context of describing someone born in 1770 that the natural implication of "Scottish-American" would be someone born in Scotland who moved to America, not someone born in Virginia of Scottish heritage. john k 03:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i think someone should add more about the lewis and clark expedition. That's what he's known for the most, anyway. ~~~~Pooja from Calfornia

family tree ? do you know who his the last clark in family tree at this time ? ?

  Can you find out? and he was given land , where is land today? who owens the land given??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.161.25.105 (talk) 20:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are probably at least one hundred people alive today descended directly from William Clark. There is a family tree of all the known descendants you can see at the Bellefontaine Cemetary office. (I haven't ever sat and counted it all up, at least 100 is my best guess from memory)

You can find out what land Clark owned at the time of his death by looking at his will http://stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/about-clark-probate.php

EugeniaSTL (talk) 20:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The earthquakes of 1811 and 1812

I know Captain Clark was the administrator of the Territory which encompassed the epicenter of those Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12. Where can I find a record of his reports and actions about this time period? Thank you. J C Kollmann (talk) 15:28, 28 October 2009 (UTC)jc kollmann 0ct. 28, 2009[reply]

Edit request from MeriwetherLewis, 23 June 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} Please add under further reading: Specht, August J. (2009). Defying Death, Not Duty: Deciphering the Mysteries of Meriwether Lewis. CreateSpace. ISBN 1449512100, 9781449512101.

MeriwetherLewis (talk) 17:52, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Welcome. This book is one of a small number written by Mr. Specht, who doesn't appear to be a historian by training or occupation.[1] Including it under further reading would not benefit the reader or Wikipedia as much as it would the author. Can you explain your reasoning? Thanks, Celestra (talk) 19:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Another photo

There is a different photo of Wm. Clark in the 1912 book History of Spokane County by N. W. Durham, which has fallen into the public domain.

The photo is on page 4. The book is digitized here: http://books.google.com/books?id=NYEUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=history+of+spokane&hl=en&ei=6dtRTI3QNZKUnQes8bWZBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.253.255 (talk) 19:58, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Adopted Children

The article has no mention of Clark's adoption of Sacagawea and Charbonneaus' son and daughter. 67.68.39.16 (talk) 04:52, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]