The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the ExpeditionYale University Press, 10/06/2004 - 320 páginas “Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy . . . a ‘Who’s Who’ of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America.” —St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri) |
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... first time. The expedition leaves Camp Dubois and heads up the Missouri River. Charles Floyd's death at age twenty-two, probably of a ruptured appendix. He is the only member of the corps to die during the expedition. The expedition ...
... first veteran to die after the expedition. John Potts killed by Blackfeet at age thirty-two; John Colter escapes and makes his famous run back to Fort Raymond. George Drouillard acquitted of the murder of Antoine Bissonnet. Death of ...
... first justice of the Waynetown, Indiana. peace in Henry Clay named secretary of state under John Quincy Adams. Jedediah Smith explores the Great Basin and California. Death of Thomas Jefferson, age eighty-three, and John Adams, age ...
... first day out. They paddled through the downpour into the current of the river they loved and hated. They had drunk from a trickling stream at the edge of the Continental Divide that was a source of the Missouri River, and now, reaching ...
... first death among those who completed the jour- ney occurred a year later when Private Joseph Field, one of the best hunters in the party, died violently at about age twenty-seven. Over the next six de- cades, expedition veterans saw ...
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The Deaths of George Gibson JeanBaptiste Lepage and John Shields | 75 |
The Corps and the War of 1812 | 118 |
John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau Among the Mountain Men | 127 |
The Sad Fate of York | 139 |
William Clarks Accounting of Expedition Members | 149 |
The Final Decades of the Corps | 162 |
Appendix A Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | 187 |
Appendix B The Death of Meriwether Lewis | 203 |
Appendix C The Sacagawea Controversy | 210 |
George Shannons Early Career | 82 |
Illustrations | 88 |
George Drouillards Death at the Hands of the Blackfeet | 89 |
William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake | 97 |
Sacagaweas Death | 106 |
Notes | 215 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Acknowledgments | 271 |
Index | 273 |
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