He and Clark returned from their expedition to St. Louis, Missouri, as heroes in September 1806.The rewards for enduring such an arduous trip were numerous. Before he left St. Louis, Lewis had given several associates the power to distribute his possessions in the event of his death; while traveling, he composed a will. Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06.
Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University. In some versions, Seaman, Lewis’s loyal Newfoundland who guarded his master against bears on the long journey West, remained by his grave, refusing to eat or drink. The government had also complicated matters by asking for additional documentation and evidence that some of the filed expenses were necessary.
Others seemed somewhat plausible.
His mother, Lucy Meriwether was his father's cousin.
Sick and tired, he could have taken his own life. It’s not clear how he tried to do it, but the prevailing belief was that Lewis was in a state of deep despondency that appeared to some as a mental illness. Lewis was also named governor of the Territory of Upper Louisiana.By rights, Lewis should have settled into a comfortable post-expedition life. Some—like the idea Lewis had been carrying on with Priscilla Grinder and was discovered by her returning husband, or that the innkeeper murdered Lewis for his money and possessions—seemed fantastic.
Other murder theories range from the scandalous (the innkeeper discovered Lewis in flagrante with Mrs. Grinder) to the conspiratorial (a corrupt Army general named James Wilkinson hatched an assassination plot. A year and a half after the shooting, ornithologist Alexander Wilson, a friend of Lewis’s, interviewed Mrs. Grinder, becoming one of the first among many people who have investigated the case. At least, it seemed more likely than the idea that a competent soldier tried to kill himself by gruesomely shooting and slashing his own body.Another theory, put forward by historian Kira Gale in two books, 2009's "I propose the motive was to prevent Lewis from bringing information to Washington regarding crooked land deals involving Wilkinson and John Smith T, a mine operator in the lead mine district south of St. Louis," Gale Priscilla Grinder herself added to the ambiguity around Lewis's death with her shifting recollections. By the time it ended, 5,000 people were dead.
For one thing, Lewis and Clark had not found the all-water route—the fabled Northwest Passage—to the Pacific. It was like coming back from the moon.”Interestingly, John Guice, one of the most prominent critics of the suicide theory, uses a very different astronaut comparison. “You try to reach out but you can never get a hold of it.” Even minor features of the story fluctuate. It’s a secret that Lewis took to his grave—where it’s likely to remain for a long time to come.The construction process might not be a great idea for someone who’s never picked up a hammer, but you don’t need an architectural degree to tackle it.
While the last 500 years have given rise to various theories about the details of this illness, the most popular explanation is that Raphael’s excessive philandering led to a fatal case of syphilis.His free-loving lifestyle wasn’t exactly a secret, and painter Giorgio Vasari popularized the idea that this behavior was linked to his untimely demise in his 1550 "Meanwhile, pursuing his amours in secret, Raffaello continued to divert himself beyond measure with the pleasures of love; whence it happened that, having on one occasion indulged in more than his usual excess, he returned to his house in a violent fever. One of his traveling companions, who arrived later, buried him nearby.His friends assumed it was suicide.
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Now Lewis’s descendants and some scholars are campaigning to exhume his body, which is buried on national parkland not far from Hohenwald, Tenn.“This controversy has existed since his death,” says Tom McSwain, Lewis’s great-great-great-great nephew who helped start a Web site, “Solve the Mystery,” that lays out family members’ point of view. The Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh (Vietnam Independence League), or Viet Minh as it would become known to the world, was a Communist front organization founded by Ho Chi Minh in 1941 to organize resistance against On October 11, 1975, William Jefferson Clinton marries Hillary Rodham in Fayetteville, Arkansas.