Craig Fehrman

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 883: A New History of Lewis and Clark · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, because in this time period, suicide, we didn't understand suicide the way we understand suicide today.

So today we would talk about suicide as like,

Somebody with a disease who is making a choice that feels rational to them even if it's heartbreaking to everybody else.

But obviously in that time period, it was a huge stain on your reputation.

Right, exactly.

So I think that that's the – like nobody wanted to believe that this national hero would do this to himself.

And he also carved his wrists up too to bleed out.

There's a quote from one of the people who ran the bed and breakfast where she says that he said, why is it so hard for me to die?

That speaks to his toughness.

There is nobody who could endure more than him.

I'm not just talking about compared to us today.

I'm talking about on the expedition.

Nobody was tougher than Lewis.

He was just an unbelievably – he just had perseverance.

He had grit.

So even at the end, you could see that.

But I think –

There's no question that his family and the people around him were trying to protect his reputation.

It's worth saying Clark and Jefferson never questioned it.

They thought he killed himself.

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