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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... trading post; but they feared their enemies to the south, the Lakota, whom Clark had called “the vilest miscreants of the savage race” after the tribe had threatened the explor- ers on their westward journey in 1804. An eloquent Hidatsa ...
... ( Map by Bill Nelson , based on an original from Manuel Lisa and the Opening of the Missouri Fur Trade , by Richard Oglesby , © 1963 by the University of Oklahoma Press , Norman ) Mississippi R lowa R. IOWA MISSOURI Osage R.
... lining the shore on the opposite side of the wide river , the French - Spanish - British center of trade and government , the gate- way to the West , St. Louis . “About 12 oClock we arrived in Site of St. Louis RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION 21.
... trade . Clark wrote one letter to relatives in Kentucky and another to his friend William Henry Har- rison , governor of Indiana Territory . The captains were received by various members of the Chouteau family , which had founded St ...
... trade policies . These were high - pressure assignments : both men faced frequent decisions that were likely to arouse controversy throughout the territory . Clark was also appointed a brigadier general in the militia , and the War ...
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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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