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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... Lewis met up with them the next day . ) Gass found no Indians but returned with the befuddled Cruzatte , who claimed to know nothing of Lewis's wound , although Lewis was convinced that Cruzatte knew exactly what had happened . Gass helped ...
... Lewis's convalescence . Guns were the first priority — the men needed to check their arms and ammunition , which ... Lewis as the arms , he made sure the nearly one million words that he , Lewis , and several others had recorded in the ...
... Lewis left any details of their first meeting after the expedition's return , but it must have been a joyous reunion for both the thirty - two - year - old captain and his mentor , the president , who was twice as old . ( Lewis's own ...
... Lewis had requested equal pay for the two of them . In 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 ...
... Lewis's right-hand man on the expedition. The son of a French-Canadian father and a Shawnee Indian mother, Drouillard was a civilian employee during the ex- pedition. Lewis called him “a man of much merit” and, using the same lan- guage ...
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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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