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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... February 1805 7 April 1805 13 June 1805 In a keelboat loaded with supplies, Meriwether Lewis and a crew of eleven depart Pittsburgh via the Ohio River. Lewis reaches Louisville and joins William Clark and his recruits. The expedition ...
... February– March 1836 30 August 1836 September 1836 1837 1 September 1838 ca. 1840 11 November 1841 1842 1844 1844 1846–48 William Bratton elected first justice of the Waynetown, Indiana. peace in Henry Clay named secretary of state ...
... February 1807 Jefferson went a step further by appointing Lewis governor of the Louisiana Territory and Clark its chief Indian agent . ( Lewis's annual salary of two thousand dollars was comparable in spending power to a present - day ...
... February 1809 he con- tracted with Pierre Chouteau ( on behalf on the St. Louis Missouri Fur Com- pany ) " to engage and raise One Hundred and Twenty five effective men ( of whom Forty shall be Americans and expert Riflemen ) . . . for ...
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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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