Meriwether Lewis: The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico, by Kira Gale
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This new full-length biography of Meriwether Lewis is presented within the context of the turbulent times of the early American Republic. The author discusses intrigues to seize the Floridas and Louisiana from Spain with the help of France or Britain, and makes the case for General James Wilkinson assassinating General Anthony Wayne to become the commanding general of the U.S. Army. She proposes that the deadlock in the presidential election of 1800 between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson was caused by a British faction of Federalists who planned to invade Louisiana and Mexico if Burr were elected president. Three parts of the conspiracy are identified: a secret military base on the Ohio, Cantonment Wilkinsonville, where 700 U.S. Army troops were stationed; the Philip Nolan filibuster into Texas; and British naval support. After Jefferson’s election, Lewis lived in the White House as his confidential aide. In 1803, he left the White House as the leader of an elite army unit to reinforce America’s claim to the Pacific Northwest. When he returned, Jefferson appointed him governor of Louisiana Territory based in St. Louis with orders to remove followers of Aaron Burr from positions of power and influence. Within two years Meriwether Lewis was dead at the age of 35, killed by an assassin’s bullets in 1809. The case is made that General Wilkinson and John Smith T., a wealthy lead mine operator, were the organizers of his assassination. Their motive was to prevent Lewis from stopping another filibuster expedition into Mexico in 1810. This biography of Lewis offers a very different interpretation of his character and achievements, supporting the idea that, if he had lived, Lewis was in line to become president of the United States. It presents a detailed account of his activities as a loyal Jefferson supporter, presidential aide, leader of a continental expedition, and governor of Louisiana Territory.
Meriwether Lewis: The Assassination of an American Hero and the Silver Mines of Mexico, by Kira Gale- Amazon Sales Rank: #1282404 in Books
- Brand: Gale, Kira
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.30" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 576 pages
Review "Curious, fascinating, creative and bold . . . boring it is not . . . . Gale does not exaggerate as she describes the rascality of Burr, Wilkinson and their associates . . . .If I were a priest, I would give Kira Gale 'a tip of the biretta' for this formidable undertaking." —John Guice, Ph.D., We Proceeded On
About the Author
Kira Gale is the author of Lewis and Clark Road Trips and coauthor of The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation. She received the Meritorious Achievement Award of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in 2007. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A monumental achievement of research and analysis By Elizabeth Clare In her newest book, Kira Gale provides the rich historical context surrounding the Lewis & Clark expedition (1803-06) and for the violent death just three years later of Meriwether Lewis. To truly understand the expedition, it is necessary to go back to the 1790s and unspool the conspiracies, factions, and plots that created an national mood of existential hysteria. The newborn United States faced threats from within. Aaron Burr secretly plotted with the British to sever New England and New York from the rest of the country, while Southerners feared that support for deadly slave rebellions was being fomented within the highest levels of the U.S. government. Britain, Spain, France, and Russia competed for control of the continent. The commanding general of the United States Army, James Wilkinson, was the most powerful man on the American frontier, and a serial conspirator in plots to invade the Mexican territory of Texas and seize the silver mines of Mexico.It was amidst this climate of paranoia that Thomas Jefferson became president in 1800 and groomed Meriwether Lewis, a young army officer and neighbor from Charlottesville, to lead an exploration of the continent. This book contains an excellent historical summary of the entire expedition, from the geopolitical implications to daily life on the river and the scientific and ethnographic achievements of Lewis and his partner William Clark. But the heart of this book is to shine a bright light upon the shadow that has colored every work ever written about Meriwether Lewis -- the presumption that he committed suicide in 1809. Kira Gale has done a tremendous service for Lewis & Clark scholars now and in the future by painstakingly detailing that Lewis's world was not so simple as it has so often been portrayed. She presents the broad cast of characters of frontier America and the extremely complicated and often nasty plots in which they were involved. In a nutshell, her case is that General Wilkinson, who never drew the line at murder, and John Smith T, a gangster-like figure in the mineral wars along the Missouri River, killed Lewis to prevent his blowing the whistle on their fraudulent dealings and plots to invade Texas.The heart of this book is the analysis of all the primary sources available about the death of Meriwether Lewis. I was shocked to realize that Donald Jackson, editor of the classic Letters of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, omitted some critical information that would have opened the door to reconsidering the historical verdict of suicide. It was Jackson who discovered and published the so-called "Russell Statement," which Kira Gale documented as a forgery in her early book The Death of Meriwether Lewis. He also omitted important letters to Jefferson and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn about Indian affairs that might have cast doubt on the traditional idea that Lewis was depressed and unproductive in the period leading up to his death. In addition, he excised a sentence that Lewis wrote about his concern that several of his letters had gone missing and not reached Washington. Copies of these letters have since turned up in Canadian archives, suggesting that a spy (Gale fingers the local postmaster with ties to the British) was intercepting some of his correspondence.Since most Lewis & Clark scholars rely heavily on Jackson, the revelation that he cannot be trusted on matters of Lewis's death is reason enough to reopen the discussion of primary sources and re-evaluate "what we know" about Lewis death. Kira Gale analyzes both the historic coverup, led by Wilkinson, and contemporary distortions. A detailed timeline of the assassination gives the whereabouts and activities of Wilkinson's cronies during the weeks leading up to Lewis's death, along with an analysis of the sources and whether they are reliable or forgeries. This volume is a must-read for all serious scholars of the life of Meriwether Lewis. I believe it will only grow in importance in the literature of the Lewis & Clark Expedition as new generations of scholars without a stake in the "suicide or murder" debate delve into the life and death of this great American hero.Reviewer: Liz Clare, co-author of the Lewis & Clark historical novels To the Ends of the Earth and The Fairest Portion of the Globe
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Murder it is. By Eve Bennett When the handwriting experts from FBI in 1996 declared the 1811 purported "Russell statement" to be a forgery,the whole basis for a suicide theory for the death of Meriwether Lewis bites the dust. Now there is solid agreement with the two much earlier official groupss at his death place, when both groups stated that he had most likely been murdered. The same conclusion most people could see when the suicide story did not make sense at all. Such an expert shot miss his own temple & heart? His believing Clark was on his way to help him, but the message obviously being intercepted. His being surrounded by Wilkinson adherents. Even his reasons given for changing his itinerary from by water to using the Natchez Trace. He was surely trying to escape Wilkinson's blockade of the Mississippi River by taking the land route. Neely surprisingly arriving just after Russell at the fort was refused - by Wilkinson- to accompany Lewis to Washington, when Neely had business elsewhere needing his care. Thank you Kira Gale for such a fine expose of the skullduggery going on at the time, & by those now, for what strange reason, trying to makeup a reason why he would kill himself. Surely now the dissension can be at an end as to the death of Meriwether Lewis.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This is an in-depth research work. KIra Gale has ... By Charles J. Harder This is an in-depth research work. Kira Gale has managed to uncover documents regarding Lewis's death that are now known as forgeries. James Wilkinson, Traitor to the United States was an outright assassin hiring others to do is his work and composing false tales about Lewis's state of mind before his demise. James Neellys letter is just one example. It is to be hoped that the N.P.S will awaken to this conspiracy against Lewis's life and allow his exhumation as his ancestors today have all hoped for. Charles Harder
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