By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

Before dawn on October 11, 1809, Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, died from two gunshot wounds. No one witnessed the shooting at a crude inn along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. But people on the scene shortly afterward concluded that the then-governor of Upper Louisiana had taken his own life. William Clark and Thomas Jefferson agreed. For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Lewis's death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide?Buckley, Jay H. is the author of 'By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis', published 2006 under ISBN 9780806137803 and ISBN 0806137800.