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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... Kentucky House of Representatives . William Clark loses bid to become first governor of the state of Missouri . Death of Manuel Lisa in St. Louis at about eight . age forty- At Bexar , in what is now Texas , Stephen F. Austin takes ...
... Kentucky and Missouri, George Shannon likely saw for- mer compatriots in both locations. In the War of 1812, Alexander Willard rode north along the Mississippi in an attempt to warn Nathaniel Pryor of an Indian threat. In all of this ...
... Kentucky. All were skilled woodsmen, with expert hunters, gunsmiths, scouts, and boatmen among them. Because of the length and dangerous nature of the venture, Lewis and Clark, bache- lors themselves, had (for the most part) recruited ...
... Kentucky a month later , he immedi- ately replied : " I will chearfully join you , ” he wrote . " This is an undertaking fraited with many difficulties , but My friend I do assure you that no man lives whith whome I would perfur to ...
... Kentucky . By 26 October 1803 they had combined their forces . On 14 May of the next year they departed , averaging fifteen miles a day as they made their way up the Missouri . They spent that winter near the Mandan villages , heading ...
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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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