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The fate of the corps, what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition, Larry E. Morris

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index

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The fate of the corps

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Larry E. Morris

"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." "The Fate of the Corps chronicles the lives of the men and one woman who opened the American West."--Jacket

what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition

Chronology -- Prologue -- "We descended with great velocity" The triumphant return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- "All the red men are my children" Lewis and Sheheke's visit to Thomas Jefferson -- "They appeared in violent rage" Pryor and Shannon's battle with the Arikara -- "He saw the prairie behind him covered with Indians in full and rapid chase" The adventures of John Colter -- "This has not been done through malice" George Drouillard's murder trial -- "The gloomy and savage wilderness" The mysterious death of Meriwether Lewis -- "I give and recommend my soul" The deaths of George Gibson, Jean-Baptiste Lepage, and John Shields -- "A sincere and undisguised heart" George Shannon's early career -- "He must have fought in a circle on horseback" George Drouillard's death at the hands of the Blackfeet -- "Water as high as the trees" William Bratton and John Ordway and the Great Earthquake"She was a good and the best woman in the Fort" Sacagawea's death -- "The crisis is fast approaching" The Corps and the War of 1812 -- "We lost in all fourteen killed" John Collins and Toussaint Charbonneau among the mountain men -- "Taken with the cholera in Tennessee and died" The sad fate of York -- "Men on Lewis & Clark's trip" William Clark's accounting of Expedition members -- "Active to the last" The final decades of the Corps -- Appendix A. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Appendix B. The death of Meriwether Lewis -- Appendix C. The Sacagawea controversy