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Bitterroot, the life and death of Meriwether Lewis, Patricia Tyson Stroud

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-352) and index

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Bitterroot

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Patricia Tyson Stroud

the life and death of Meriwether Lewis

In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was he a suicide, felled by his own alcoholism and mental instability? Most historians have agreed. Patricia Tyson Stroud reads the evidence to posit another, even darker, ending for Lewis

ch. 1. An unexpected proposal -- chapter 2. Early life -- chapter 3. The threat of war -- chapter 4. Jefferson's choice -- chapter 5. Cocaptain -- chapter 6. Doctrine of discovery -- chapter 7. Under way -- chapter 8. The Teton Sioux -- chapter 9. Fort Mandan -- chapter 10. A "darling" project -- chapter 11. Across the Rockies to the Pacific -- chapter 12. The return -- chapter 13. Unspeakable joy -- chapter 14. Philadelphia interlude -- chapter 15. A classic cast of characters -- chapter 16. Land of opportunity -- chapter 17. Honor questioned -- chapter 18. Defamed -- chapter 19. Jefferson's letter -- A selection of plants collected by Meriwether Lewis

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Life and death of Meriwether Lewis