Craig Fehrman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jun
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We know from people who knew him who talked about how much he was drinking in this time period.
I wonder what he drank.
I mean they drank all kinds of stuff back then.
Most of what they drank on the expedition was like cheap corn whiskey because you just got your soldiers drunk as cheaply as possible.
So that was mostly what they had.
But Lewis – Jefferson is no longer president at this point.
Madison is.
And Lewis sends some receipts back to get reimbursed for this big mission up the Missouri River, which is related to Lewis and Clark's expedition actually.
And the people in Washington, D.C.
are like, we're not covering this.
Like you have asked for more money than you are entitled to in your government position.
And so Lewis freaks out because he has such a strong sense of honor.
He's such a patriotic guy.
Like in his letters about the expedition, he's always like, this is honorable for me, but it's also honorable for my country.
Like he loved America so much.
And so now to have Americans being like, you're trying to defraud your government, he freaked out.
I mean, he wasn't in a good place anyway, but he freaked out.
So he starts heading from St.
Louis back to Washington and on the Natchez Trace and in what is now Tennessee, he killed himself.
And the detail that always sticks out for me about this is he's riding and he's got a person who's riding with him.
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