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 ...

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 ...

2009-11-26T12:06:15-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b7d/289539-05-m.jpgKira Gale talked about the book she co-wrote, The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic ...

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 ...

HOHENWALD, Tenn., June 8 (UPI) -- Descendants of Meriwether Lewis say his body should be exhumed in Tennessee to determine whether he committed suicide or was assassinated. "All we're looking for is ...

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 ...

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 ...