The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

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Yale 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)
 
The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over?
 
The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form—from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Some of the expedition members went on to hold public office; two were charged with murder. Many of the explorers could not resist the call of the wild and continued to adventure forth into America’s western frontier.
 
Engagingly written and based on exhaustive research, The Fate of the Corps chronicles the lives of the fascinating men (and one woman) who opened the American West.
 
“A fascinating afterword to the expedition . . . demands inclusion in the canon of essential Lewis and Clark books.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
 
“Succinct, clear style . . . The diverse fates of the members of the expedition . . . give the feel of a Greek epic.”—Santa Fe New Mexican

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Índice

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
89
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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Larry E. Morris is a writer and editor with the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at Brigham Young University and has served as chairman of the genealogy committee for the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.

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