Meriwether Lewis Research Paper

The adventurer Meriwether Lewis explored the west Louisiana territory. He came back efficacious and became a national hero until he died under suspicious circumstances on October 11, 1809. The brave man died in his room at an Inn called Grinder’s Stand from a gunshot to the back of his skull and to his chest. The death was pegged as a suicide but, before his death Lewis was going through psychological and physical health problems, financial problems and bankruptcy. Meriwether Lewis’ untimely demise was considered a suicide for an extensive period of time, but what essentially occurred based off the evidence gathered is that the unidentified black man who was voyaging with Major Neely was employed by Nelly who was appointed by General James Wilkerson to assassinate Meriwether Lewis. The anonymous black man who was traveling with Lewis and Major Nelly is the one who murdered Lewis. He is the one who murdered Lewis because there are no records of who he was and he didn’t give a witness statement. If he was there during the murder why wasn’t he identified and why didn’t he give a witness statement. The room Lewis was staying in had no signs …show more content…
In his witness statement Major Nelly said that he was there and heard the guns that killed Lewis go off, but Major Nelly was nowhere near Grinder’s Stand to hear the gunshots. We also know that Nelly was Indian. Nelly had Lewis killed because he was hired by General Wilkerson to eradicate him and because he was distressed that Lewis was the cause of the Americans stealing more of his people’s territory. So he hired the anonymous black guy to kill Lewis and get the job done for him. Nelly also employed the anonymous man to do the job for him because Lewis took a different route than Nelly expected him to so he need someone else to be there to monitor Lewis and know where he was going and what course he was taking. So Major Nelly hired the unnamed black guy to kill