MISSOULA, Mont. - The next great bicentennial is upon us. No sooner did Meriwether Lewis and William Clark amble off into the sunrise than along came David Thompson, slowly making his way down from ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - The next great bicentennial is upon us. No sooner did Meriwether Lewis and William Clark amble off into the sunrise than along came David Thompson, slowly making his way down ...

Thompson was a London-born explorer, surveyor and trader for the Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company. He spent most of five years prowling the Columbia River basin of the Rocky Mountains ...

Norm Jacobson stands at a spot in the Mission Valley in between St. Ignatius and Moiese that he thinks is close to where the 19th century fur trader and surveyor David Thompson sketched the Mission ...