Lewis and Clark in murder mystery 200 years after their final expedition

Telegraph ^ | Jun 27, 2009 | Jacqui Goddard

[decimon]

When explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark completed a trailblazing expedition across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1806, they were revered as American heroes and their journals as literary classics.

But Lewis's death three years later, at the age of 35, is now turning into a historical whodunnit as academics, scientists and generations of his descendants question whether he really committed suicide, as was accepted at the time, or whether he may have been felled by an assassin's bullets.

[Little Ray]

I though Clive Cussler had settled this one in the “The Navigator.”

http://www.amazon.com/Navigator-Numa-Files-Clive-Cussler/dp/0425222365/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246135933&sr=8-30

[wildbill]

Right. The Natchez Trace was a dangerous trail through a lot of backwater southern areas known for robbers.

And it wasn’t unknown for innkeepers to work hand in glove with the bandits.

[SunkenCiv]

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[nomorelurker]

Hey this was a nice historical thread. I might even vote for Palin should she run in the next Pres. election. But every thread does not need this. Simply stop. Can you not wait a few months even a year? You risk becoming a cultist.

[Smokin' Joe]

Definitely suicide. (cough)

Yep. Only had to reload that flintlock pistol once. Musta been...