“So Hard to Die”: A Physician and a Psychologist Explore the Mystery of Meriwether Lewis's Death

Meriwether Lewis, commander of the famed 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, returned home from this perilous journey with every hope of a bright and productive future. Yet within three years, the thirty-five-year-old Lewis was dead in a lonely inn along the Natchez Trace in rural Tennessee, the victim of two gunshots. Various medical and psychological theories have been proposed by historians and others to account for his mysterious death, which was originally reported as a suicide. Join authors Drs. David and Marti Peck as they draw on their professional backgrounds as a physician and a clinical psychologist to provide an indepth analysis of the various theories that still swirl around Lewis’s death.

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