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“If we could have got a person perfectly skilled in botany, natural history, mineralogy, astronomy, with at the same time the necessary firmness of body & mind, habits of living in the woods & familiarity with the Indian character, it would have been better. But I know of no such character who would undertake an enterprise so perilous.”

—Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1803

“The appearance of the work, which was announced for publication nearly three years ago, has been retarded by a variety of causes, among which the melancholy fate of Captain Lewis is already known and lamented by the nation.”

—Nicholas Biddle, prospectus,

expedition journals, 1814

“It is with extreme pain that I have to inform you of the death of His Excellency Meriwether Lewis, Governor of upper Louisiana who died on the morning of the 11th Instant and I am sorry to say by Suicide.”

—James Neelly, 18 October 1809