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T HE F ATE OF THE C ORPS
The Fate of the Corps
W HAT B ECAME OF THE
L EWIS AND C LARK E XPLORERS
A FTER THE E XPEDITION
LARRY E. MORRIS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN & LONDON
Parts of this book were adapted from the authors article Dependable John Ordway We Proceeded On 27, May 2001; used by permission. Parts of this book were adapted for the article After the Expedition, American History, April 2003.
Copyright 2004 by Larry Morris.
All rights reserved.
This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers.
Designed by James J. Johnson and set in Bulmer & Baskerville types
by Integrated Publishing Solutions.
Printed in the United States of America by R.R. Donnelley & Sons.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morris, Larry E., 1951
The fate of the corps : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition / Larry E. Morris.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-10265-8 (alk. paper)
1. Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) 2. ExplorersWest (U.S.)Biography.
3. Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. 4. Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809Friends
and associates. 5. Clark, William, 1770-1838. 6. Clark, William,
1770-1838Friends and associates. I. Title
F592.7.M685 2004
917.8042dc22
2004000196
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability
of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity
of the Council on Library Resources.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Richard Lloyd Anderson
I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its
burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the
other, and how if you could accept the past you might hope for
the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.
R OBERT P ENN W ARREN , All the Kings Men
We Descended with Great Velocity
The Triumphant Return of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
All the Red Men Are My Children
Lewis and Shehekes Visit to Thomas Jefferson
They Appeared in Violent Rage
Pryor and Shannons 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 Drouillards 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 Shannons Early Career
He Must Have Fought in a Circle on Horseback
George Drouillards 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
Sacagaweas 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 & Clarks Trip
William Clarks Accounting of Expedition Members
Active to the Last
The Final Decades of the Corps
Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Death of Meriwether Lewis
The Sacagawea Controversy
| 31 August 1803 | In a keelboat loaded with supplies, Meriwether Lewis and a crew of eleven depart Pittsburgh via the Ohio River. |
| 14 October 1803 | Lewis reaches Louisville and joins William Clark and his recruits. |
| 26 October 1803 | The expedition begins as Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery set out from the Falls of the Ohio, traveling together as a group for the first time. |
| 14 May 1804 | The expedition leaves Camp Dubois and heads up the Missouri River. |
| 20 August 1804 | Charles Floyds death at age twenty-two, probably of a ruptured appendix. He is the only member of the corps to die during the expedition. |
| 27 October 1804 | The expedition reaches the Mandan villages in what is now North Dakota. |
| 11 February 1805 | Birth of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau. |
| 7 April 1805 | The corps departs Fort Mandan with a total of thirty-three people in the group. A group of men carrying specimens and reports returns to St. Louis in the keelboat. |
| 13 June 1805 | The expedition reaches the Great Falls of the Missouri River. |
| 12 August 1805 | Meriwether Lewis leads a group of men over the Continental Divide. |
| 7 November 1805 | The Pacific Ocean comes into view. |
| 23 March 1806 | The group departs Fort Clatsop for the return journey |
| 3 July 1806 | The corps splits into groups to explore present-day Montana. There are eventually five different groups, headed by Lewis and Clark and Sergeants Ordway Pryor, and Gass. |
| 27 July 1806 | In the expeditions sole violent encounter with Indians, Lewis, Drouillard, and Joseph and Reubin Field kill two Blackfoot Indians. |
| 11 August 1806 | Pierre Cruzatte accidentally shoots Lewis as the two are hunting elk. |
| 12 August 1806 | The entire group is reunited. |
| 14 August 1806 | The corps reaches the Hidatsa and Mandan villages, where Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Jean-Baptiste remain. John Colter receives permission to join two trappers heading west. |
| 23 September 1806 | The Corps of Discovery arrives back in St. Louis. |
| 5 November 1806 | Lewis and Clark arrive in Louisville, having left there a little more than three years earlier. |
| March 1807 | Meriwether Lewis appointed governor of Louisiana Territory; William Clark appointed chief Indian agent and brigadier general of the militia for the Louisiana Territory. |
| April 1807 | Manuel Lisas trapping party, which includes expedition veterans George Drouillard, Peter Weiser, John Potts, Richard Windsor, and Jean-Baptiste Lepage, heads up the Missouri River. Near present-day Omaha, Nebraska, they meet John Colter, who joins them. |
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