07:44 AM MDT on Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Assocaited Press

IDAHO FALLS- More than 50,000 visitors from throughout the nation saw the Lewis and Clark exhibit at the Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls before it closed this week.

The exhibit called "Discovering Idaho: The World of Lewis and Clark," was open for six months and was the longest-running exhibit for the museum.

It featured over 800 artifacts from the expedition 200 years ago, many borrowed from the private collection of Peyton "Bud" Clark, the great-great-great grandson of William Clark.

Among them was the original belt knife and sheath worn by Clark on the expedition.