Washington, D.C.; he completed the thirteen-volume edition in
1999 and retired from the university in 2004.
Moulton’s research interests are historical editing, the history of
the American West, and American Indians. Among his publications
are a biography of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees (1978), a
two-volume edition of his papers (1985), and the journals of the
Lewis and Clark expedition (1983-2001). Significant research
awards include the National Cowboy Hall of Fame’s Wrangler
Award recognizing the Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as
the Best Western Nonfiction Book (1984), the J. Franklin Jameson
Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement from the American
Historical Association (1990), and the University of Nebraska’s
Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (2001), the
institution’s highest research award.
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ISSUE #2 - October 2016
Gary E. Moulton
St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church
15050 West Maple Road
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 @ 10:30 a.m.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
Moulton has been a consultant for a number of Lewis and Clark
projects, including Ken Burns’ film, “Lewis and Clark: The Journey
of the Corps of Discovery,” the United States Mint’s design of
the one-dollar Sacagawea coin, National Geographic’s Lewis
and Clark IMAX film, and Maya Lin’s Confluence Project on the
Columbia River. He has also been a consultant to NEH on a
variety of projects and served as senior advisor to the Maximilian
Journals Project, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. He
received the Award of Meritorious Achievement from the Lewis
and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation (1988), the Nebraska Library
Association’s Mari Sandoz Award (2003), was named “Midlander
of the Year” by the Omaha World-Herald (2003), and was given
the Addison E. Sheldon Memorial Award from the Nebraska
State Historical Society recognizing his outstanding contributions
to Nebraska history (2004).
He was elected to the Oklahoma Historians’ Hall of Fame by the
Oklahoma Historical Society, was awarded an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters by Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, was
presented the Medal of Honor by the National Society Daughters
of the American Revolution (DAR), and received the Nebraska
Humanities Council’s Sower Award honoring his contributions to
Nebraska humanities, all in 2005. In 2007 he received the Julian
P. Boyd Award from the Association for Documentary Editing, the
association’s highest award. To inaugurate the Lewis and Clark
bicentennial, President and Mrs. George W. Bush invited him to
give a presentation at the White House in July 2002.
Prior to his retirement Moulton taught courses in American
history, the American West, and Nebraska history, and directed
research and editing seminars as well as doctoral and masters
degree students. For the summer of 1994 Moulton received a
Fulbright Scholar award to teach at the University of Hannover,
Germany. In 1996 he was presented the Certificate of Recognition
for Contributions to Students by the UNL Parents Association,
and the same year the UNL College of Arts and Sciences honored
him with its Distinguished Teaching Award.
About Our Speaker
Gary E. Moulton
Bio
Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American
History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and editor
of The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Moulton began
the editing project in 1979 with support from the UNL Center
for Great Plains Studies, the American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, and the National Endowment for the Humanities,
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Moulton has been a scholar-in-residence at Fort Clatsop National
Memorial, Astoria, Oregon (1999, 2015), at the Lewis and Clark
Interpretive Center, Great Falls, Montana (2000), at the Missouri
River Basin Lewis and Clark Center, Nebraska City (2003-4), and
at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon (2010). He has
been a visiting professor at Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
(2001, 2003), at the University of Montana, Missoula (2001),
and a resident fellow at Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville,
Virginia (2001).
Moulton’s other activities include giving presentations on the
Lewis and Clark expedition and leading tours on the Lewis and
Clark trail.
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Nebraska Featured In History of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition
up the Missouri River. It was two long months before they
actually reached Nebraska, at the mouth of the Nemaha
River, not far from the village of Rulo, in Richardson
County. Here they encountered Indians, and enjoyed a
pleasant variation in their diet by eating the wild plums,
cherries and grapes growing in the region.
In the year 1803, Nebraska was sold by Napoleon
Bonaparte, Emperor of France, to Thomas Jefferson,
President of the United States. It was sold as part of the
great country between the Mississippi River and the
Rocky Mountains, all of which was at the time called
Louisiana and owned by France. The price paid was
$15,000,000, which was about three cents per acre.
On July 15th, they were at the mouth of the little
Nemaha River and on July 20th they were at the mouth
of the Weeping Water in Cass County. The next day they
reached the mouth of the Platte River and camped a little
way above it. They sent out runners to the village of the
Otoes near the place where the Elkhorn flows into the
Platte.
As soon as the United States had bought this country,
President Jefferson sent Captain Meriwether Lewis and
Captain William Clark with forty-five other men to explore
the vast expanse. They were to go up the Missouri River
as far as they could, then cross the Rocky Mountains to
eventually reach the Pacific Ocean. They were to make
maps, bring back reports of the land and attempt to make
friends with the tribes with which they came in contact.
It was a wild land of which most white men knew very
little. Indians and wild animals had already made their
homes there.
After resting and repairing their boats, the explorers
travelled north past the site of where the city of Omaha
was later founded. On July 30, they camped upon a
high bluff near the present town of Fort Calhoun (in
Washington County). Here, on August 3, 1804, they
convened the first council ever held by the United States
government with Indians living west of the Mississippi
River. Fourteen members of the Otoe and Missouri tribes
attended the council, among them the principal leaders
Chief Little Thief, Chief Big Horse and Chief White Horse.
The chiefs promised to keep peace with the United
States and presented the expedition members with
gift of watermelon. The Indians were given medals and
gifts of paint, powder and cloth. Today, this momentous
event is commemorated with life-sized statuary amidst
an amphitheater of native grasses at Fort Atkinson State
Park in Fort Calhoun, on the site of the “Council Bluff”
where the historic meeting took place.
Lewis and Clark started their journey from the mouth of
the Missouri, near St Louis, on May 14, 1804. They had
powder, lead, tools and gifts to trade with the Indians.
They had two horses for their hunters to ride in order
to help them to carry the game they had killed for the
travelers.
The Lewis and Clark party made about twenty miles a day
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The Omaha Town Hall lecture series started in 1964. Following is a list of some other notable
events which occurred that same year.
Fontenelle Forest was dedicated as a registered natural history landmark by Assistant
Secretary of the Interior John A. Carver.
One of the many tornadoes to strike central and eastern Nebraska in May during a day of
severe storms was rated F5 — the strongest possible and the last of that magnitude to
hit Nebraska. The F5 tornado traveled nearly 70 miles from eastern Adams County to
northwestern Butler County. Several towns along the way were spared direct hits, but there
was complete destruction of farmsteads in the twister’s path. F5 storms have winds in
excess of 260 mph. The wind in an F4 tops 200 mph.
A new 250-bed hospital, now known as Bergan Mercy, was opened near 72 and Center Streets.
The hospital was named in honor of the Sisters of Mercy and the late Archbishop Gerald
T. Bergan.
HDR completed construction of Nebraska Methodist Hospital, the company’s first health care
client. The hospital was also HDR’s first interior design project. A severe thunderstorm dumped more than eight inches of rain over the Omaha metro area on
June 16th, 1964. Floodwater in area creeks rose so quickly full evacuation was prevented,
and seven deaths occurred. About 18,000 acres were flooded in the communities of
Omaha, Ralston, Millard, Papillion, Elkhorn, Bellevue and Bennington. It is the worst flood
on record in the metro area’s Papillion Creek watershed.
The Omaha City Council voted to rename Municipal Stadium the Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium
in honor of the former mayor, a leading advocate for construction of the facility during the
1940s. It later became affectionately known as “The Blatt” to Omahans and visitors alike.
Omaha Town Hall wishes to acknowledge the generosity of
Security National Bank for use of their conference rooms for
our board meetings.
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The Omaha Mustangs, a semi-pro football franchise in the Continental Football League, played
at Rosenblatt Stadium this year through 1969. Former Husker standouts Ted Vactor, Jerry
Patton, Bob Churchich and Frank Solich played on the team. Team owner Bob Adwers
started the franchise partly to fill the pro sports void in Omaha at the time. The largest earthquake in Nebraska occurred in Merriman, Nebraska at a magnitude of 5.1.
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