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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... probably of a ruptured appendix. He is the only member of the corps to die during the expedition. The expedition reaches the Mandan villages in what is now North Dakota. Birth of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau. The corps departs Fort Mandan ...
... probably in his late twenties, in St. Louis; death of John Shields, age forty, in the Indiana Territory; death of Jean-Baptiste Lepage, age forty-eight. James Madison inaugurated as fourth president of United States. Lewis and Clark ...
... probably from appendicitis, meaning that even the best medical treatment of the day could not have saved him. These explorers were the first Americans to cross the continent, discovering and describing 178 plant and 122 animal species ...
... 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.
... probably around thirty years old. In many ways, York's service on the expedition symbolizes the sad history of slavery in the United States: he had responsibilities similar to the others and performed them well, but he received no pay ...
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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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