Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
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Because, you know, if somebody, if you can't even recognize somebody, if they look 15 years older, and again, in terms of human nature, it just makes sense to go through all this stuff to come back then and then to, like,
in a sense, the expedition wore him down, but it also gave him something to live for, and he doesn't have that anymore.
As a human being, it makes a lot of sense.
And when you compare it with that new letter from John Quincy Adams about the physical cost, I don't think there's any question that it just kind of broke Lewis down.
So this is on the Natchez Trace.
Jefferson had maimed him the governor of the Louisiana Territory.
And
I'm not sure why Jefferson did that because Lewis was supposed to write a book.
And in this time period, exploration was the first step.
The book was the second step.
The whole point was to share this information.
And the whole world was waiting to read this book.
When it finally did come out, when somebody else finished it after Lewis died, there are reviews in England.
There are reviews in Germany.
This was global news.
The way we all talked about Artemis II, that's how people talked about Lewis and Clark in this time period.
And so Lewis has his hands full with this book that he has to write, but Jefferson sends him to be the governor of the Louisiana Territory.
I think he kind of – Jefferson wanted to use Lewis' celebrity and his reputation to sort of try to control this pretty crazy, chaotic territory at this point after Louisiana Purchase.
And so Lewis is just overwhelmed.
He starts drinking more.
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