for Two Centuries, The Question Has Persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis's Death A Suicide, An Accident, Or A Homicide? Plausible Cases For Conspiracy And Murder Have Been Made - And Too Quickly Dismissed By Historians. By His Own Hand? Is The First Book To Subject The Evidence To Careful Analysis And Consider The Murder-versus-suicide Debate Within Its Full Historical Context. kliatt meriwether Lewis's Sad And Rather Pathetic Death Has Always Been An Uncomfortable Footnote To The Grand...

For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. government’s most important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clark’s tenure as Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis. Jay H. Buckley shows that Clark had immense influence on Indian-white...

In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries-explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American...