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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... land granted to his father , Moses Austin . Nicholas Biddle becomes president of the United States Bank . William Clark serves as superintendent of Indian affairs for native nations along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers . Death of ...
... land by a special act of Congress.) Alexander Willard and his wife travel by wagon train from Wisconsin to California. Death of Henry Clay in Washington at age seventy-five. Sam Houston elected governor of Texas; he is deposed in 1861 ...
... land transactions, probate proceedings, arrest warrants, and family genealogies. I have transcribed excerpts from original documents exactly as the authors wrote them. is My quoting of dialogue is taken directly from primary sources ...
... lands the party had just left . After two and a half years away from civiliza- tion , John Colter was going back to the Montana country to trap beaver . The free spirit Colter was an expert woodsman who had adapted readily to wilderness ...
... land. The boatmen fought wind and rain, suffocating dust, nar- row channels, sandbars, whirlpools, shifting currents, runaway timber, and “sawyers”—half-submerged logs and branches stuck in the riverbed that could overturn or wreck the ...
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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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