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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... rose early and packed their sup- plies , eager to get started on the last leg of their long journey the sixteen- hundred - mile homestretch run to St. Louis , which they would accomplish in five weeks . As they loaded their pirogue and ...
... rose high from S. W. which detained us about three hours,” Ordway noted suc- cinctly. “Then procd. on though the work against us.” The nights were never easy—even a few hours of uninterrupted sleep was a rarity. The mosquitoes ...
... rose the tribute, “their perilous services endear them to every American heart.”3 By late October, Lewis, Clark, York, and expedition members John Ordway and François Labiche were traveling east with Sheheke, his wife, Yellow Corn, and ...
... Rose . Said to be the son of a white trader and a woman of Indian and African- American blood , Rose had made a reputation as a New Orleans brawler and pirate while still in his teens . As one acquaintance put it , “ his visage most con ...
... Rose, said that “Rose, by this time, had given some proofs of his reckless bravery, and of a strong and vigorous constitution. . . . Accordingly, Rose among a few others, was selected to spend the winter with the Crow Indians, and was ...
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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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