The expedition was extraordinarily well run. Only one soldier died throughout the entire trip - and most likely because of appendicitis, something that would have proved fatal in Philadelphia as well as Council Bluffs.
His snide remark about not "killing Indians (much)" shows he knows nothing about Indians nor the expedition. It's not entirely settled whether Meriwhether Lewis killed himself - while he was prone to bouts of depression and was in severe debt, there is some evidence he was murdered in Tennessee.
What did Martin Luther King really do, after all?
That stuff Maya Angelou writes -- would anyone
read it if they didn't have to? Does anyone
believe Cornel West is of value to education?