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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... Because of the length and dangerous nature of the venture, Lewis and Clark, bache- lors themselves, had (for the most part) recruited unmarried men. The group also included William Clark's slave, York, probably around thirty years.
... included in the official roster. Lewis and Clark also enlisted civilian employees, and by the time they de- parted the Mandan villages, where they had spent the winter of 1804–5, and headed west, the surprisingly diverse party included ...
... included lances and flannel , opium and essence of peppermint . Zoological artifacts such as prairie dogs , buffalo horns , and skeletons of bighorn sheep had been preserved for the world of science — and for the eminently curious ...
... included Yankees, educated Virginians, southern slave owners and their slaves, free blacks, Spanish, Ken- tucky boatmen dubbed “Kaintucks,” Creoles, and Indians. The streets were notoriously dirty, with flies buzzing around animal ...
... included in Clark's count of forty-eight men—they were not technically part of Pryor's military mission. It is possible that expedition veterans Joseph and Reubin Field, two more of the “nine young men,” were part of Chouteau's group ...
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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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