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Bitterroot - The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis (Hardcover)
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Bitterroot - The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis (Hardcover)
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In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering
figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to
explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson
with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within
three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses,
Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to
Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin
on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was he a suicide, felled by his
own alcoholism and mental instability? Most historians have agreed.
Patricia Tyson Stroud reads the evidence to posit another, even
darker, ending for Lewis. Stroud uses Lewis's find, the bitterroot
flower, with its nauseously pungent root, as a symbol for his
reputation as a purported suicide. It was this reputation that
Thomas Jefferson promulgated in the memoir he wrote prefacing the
short account of Lewis's historic expedition published five years
after his death. Without investigation of any kind, Jefferson,
Lewis's mentor from boyhood, reiterated undocumented assertions of
Lewis's serious depression and alcoholism. That Lewis was the
courageous leader of the first expedition to explore the continent
from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean has been
overshadowed by presuppositions about the nature of his death.
Stroud peels away the layers of misinformation and gossip that have
obscured Lewis's rightful reputation. Through a retelling of his
life, from his resourceful youth to the brilliance of his
leadership and accomplishments as a man, Bitterroot shows that
Jefferson's mystifying assertion about the death of his protege is
the long-held bitter root of the Meriwether Lewis story.
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