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Meriwether Lewis: suicide or homicide?
Nov. 8th, 2010 12:07 pmContinuing the death theme of my recent posts with one that's 202 years old, in hopes of staving off additional new subjects ...
Recently someone on the MythSoc list made a light humorous post jokingly distinguishing C.S. Lewis from other Lewises, and identified Meriwether Lewis as the Lewis who committed suicide.
Kind of sad that that's what someone should offhand remember him for, mostly because his heroic 1804-6 cross-country expedition with William Clark and their men (and one woman and a baby) was far more worthy of being remembered, but also because it's not at all certain that he did commit suicide. But few people any more know that. ( Read more... )
Recently someone on the MythSoc list made a light humorous post jokingly distinguishing C.S. Lewis from other Lewises, and identified Meriwether Lewis as the Lewis who committed suicide.
Kind of sad that that's what someone should offhand remember him for, mostly because his heroic 1804-6 cross-country expedition with William Clark and their men (and one woman and a baby) was far more worthy of being remembered, but also because it's not at all certain that he did commit suicide. But few people any more know that. ( Read more... )
