One of the members of the Corps of Discovery happened to be a Newfoundland dog named Seaman ... be its new mascot and in 2008 unveiled the logo, depicted by Missouri graphic artist Jim Ward.

The 'Dog from Newfoundland' in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier’s Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères, published in 1819. (Bibliothèque nationale de France) Of all the features that ...