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In July of 1806, Captain Meriwether Lewis and three of his companions had a violent confrontation with the Blackfeet, resulting in at least one dead warrior. This encounter would lead to strained ...

The Grand Lodge AF & AM Museum in Helena displays the masonic apron of Meriwether Lewis. Not only is this treasure important to Freemasonry, it is also important for the role it played in the nation’s ...

American explorer Meriwether Lewis is best known for his efforts in the early 1800s to chart the Louisiana Purchase territory. His expedition with William Clark paved the way for the westward ...

John D.W. Guice, emeritus professor of history, University of Southern Mississippi Nobody disputes that Meriwether Lewis died of gunshot wounds suffered on October 11, 1809, at Grinder’s Stand, an inn ...

When explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark blazed a trail through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1806, they were hailed as heroes. But three years later — at the age of 35 — Lewis ...

WASHINGTON — Did Meriwether Lewis — half the leadership of the Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the Louisiana Territory — commit suicide or was he murdered along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee ...

By 1806, the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had solved the greatest question about their young nation: What lies beyond the wilderness? Three years later, Lewis’s death. at age ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – 2004 marks the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expeditions to the West, and a U.S. senator wants to solve the mystery behind Meriwether Lewis' death in time for the ...

Controversy over Meriwether Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee. Connie Ricca / Corbis Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s ...