Since most Americans don’t think much about Lewis and Clark beyond elementary school, it often comes as a surprise to learn that Meriwether Lewis died by suicide in 1809. It was just three years after ...
A highly unusual coroner's inquest ruled Tuesday that the body of explorer Meriwether Lewis should be exhumed to attempt to determine whether his death almost 190 years ago was murder or suicide. Next ...
Sept. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and ...
KING AND QUEEN — A new historical highway marker approved for King and Queen County will recognize early colonial immigrant John Lewis, an ancestor of Meriwether Lewis of Lewis and Clark expedition ...