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Patrick Gass (June 12, 1771 – April 2, 1870) served as sergeant in the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). He was important to the expedition because of his service as a carpenter, and he published the first journal of the expedition in 1807, seven years before the first publication based on Lewis and Clark's journals.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (ISBN 0684811073), written by Stephen Ambrose, is a 1996 biography of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The book is based on journals and letters written by Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Jefferson and the members of the Corps of Discovery.
A Grief Observed is a collection of C. S. Lewis's reflections on his experience of bereavement following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, in 1960.The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk because Lewis wished to avoid the connection.
The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Atlas. 1904. Reprint. Scituate, MA: Digital Scanning. [8] Tubbs, Stephanie Ambrose; Clay Straus Jenkinson (2003). The Lewis and Clark Companion: An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery. New York: Henry Holt. [6] Wheeler, Olin D. (1904). The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804–1806.
Richard Windsor (dates unknown) served the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Corps of Discovery as a hunter, scout, and woodsman. Windsor was recruited at Kaskaskia in 1803, joining the party as a Private at Camp Dubois, January 1, 1804. Windsor was a great hunter and woodsmen and he was very beneficial to the expedition.
The party remained captive until February 1829. This Nathaniel Pryor is sometimes reported to be the same man who traveled with Lewis and Clark, [11] and sometimes reported to be his son, the one found living at San Gabriel Mission in 1838. Considering Nathan Hale Pryor's vast experience with the fur trade, his experience and skill with ...
During an unsuccessful search for Baker Bay as part of the Lewis and Clark experdition, Willard and George Shannon were ordered to camp out and wait for the main party. While they were sleeping on the beach, a group of Native Americans took their guns, leaving them unarmed. The main party returned in such a timely manner as to startle the ...
Thwaites discovered and uncovered various additional original sources, including the journal of Charles Floyd, the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die on the expedition. By including these disparate sources and tying them together in a cohesive set of volumes, the nature and importance of the expedition became more generally recognized.