Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
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And so from about 100 feet away, Cruzat shoots him and shoots Lewis right in the ass.
And so the bullet goes through, exits.
It doesn't hit any bone or nerve or anything like that, but it's still a really bad wound.
And so on the way back, Lewis has to lay in the bottom of the boat.
Even when it's raining, there's nothing they can do about him, but he just lays on his stomach in the bottom of the boat for the way back.
and they try to, like, Clark takes care of him while he's trying to attend to Lewis.
Lewis passes out sometimes, and so they have little, like, they try to keep the wounds open so they can drain.
But one thing I pointed out in my book is that just a couple months before this, Lewis had castrated all their horses, and his favorite horse had died.
The castration wounds had gotten infected, so, like, Lewis, like, had to clean the maggots out and try to keep it alive, but eventually he had to put the horse down.
And I think that really bothered Lewis because he just clearly loved animals.
Like, he brought a dog with him, semen, and then
Everything Lewis writes about animals, you can just see how much he connects with animals.
But, you know, I feel like Lewis, he's not just shot and just stuck in the bottom of the boat.
You know, they didn't have germ theory.
He wasn't thinking, you know, in the way we would, but he still knew that like, if you have a big wound, bad things can happen.
You get a fever and he writes in the journal, like I have a small fever.
So there's just a ton of pressure on him on the way back from this hunting accident.
And then he does heal.
He gets better.
He makes it to Washington DC and he's, he's a celebrity.
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