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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... Pryor and Shannon's Battle with the Arikara 28 CHAPTER 4 " He Saw the Prairie Behind Him Covered with Indians in Full and Rapid Chase " The Adventures of John Colter 38 CHAPTER 5 " This Has Not Been Done Through Malice " George ...
... Pryor, and Gass. In the expedition's sole violent encounter with Indians, Lewis, Drouillard, and Joseph and Reubin Field kill two Blackfoot Indians. Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shoots Lewis as the two are hunting elk. The entire group ...
... Pryor's party returns with Sheheke after having been attacked by Arikara Indians. Joseph Field, about age twenty-seven and possibly with Pryor, is killed sometime between 27 June and 20 October. He is the first veteran to die after the ...
... Pryor in the Arkansas Territory at age fifty-nine. Alexander Willard serves in the Black Hawk War. Siege of the Alamo. Death of George Shannon in Palmyra, Missouri, at age fifty-one. Sam Houston defeats Stephen Austin to become presi ...
... Pryor, George Gibson, and George Shannon battled Indians, with Shannon losing his leg; John Ordway grew prosperous but lost everything in the New Madrid earthquake of 1811, apparently dying in poverty at age forty-two; George Drouillard ...
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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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