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March, 2008
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By His Own Hand?
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

Edited by John D. W. Guice, with contributions by James J. Holmberg, John D. W. Guice, and Jay H. Buckley
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 178. Illustrations, appendix, notes, selected bibliography, index. $24.95.)

In October 1809, just three years after he and William Clark made their triumphant return from their voyage of discovery, thirty-five-year-old Meriwether Lewis perished from gunshot wounds at an obscure Tennessee inn southwest of Nashville. Interest in Lewis's death has hardly subsided in recent years; indeed, the two-hundredth anniversary of the expedition seems to have sparked a new fascination with the famous explorer's sad ending. Fortunately, By His Own Hand? offers a highly readable, well-researched account of the controversy surrounding Lewis's death that is valuable to both general readers and scholars alike. 1
      It would have been hard to find three scholars more qualified to discuss this topic than Guice, professor of history emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi; Holmberg, curator of special collections at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky; and Buckley, assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. . . .
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