How Did Lewis Die? Meriwether Lewis half of the lewis and clark adventure duo. After the louisana purchase Jefferson made lewis governor of the land. In the expedition his job was to lead the expedition into lands west of Mississippi which he did after enlisting willam clark. He was going to Washington to give Jefferson secret codes. I think that Meriwether Lewis died by conspiracy because all the reason it would be suicide don’t add up like how could he shoot part of his skull off where you can see his brain and still have life to shoot himself in the stomach.
On October 11, 1809 Lewis died of two gunshot wounds one to the head and one to the stomach. At first the death was ruled a suicide. The suicide theorm is primarly based off lewis travel companion james neely who quote the testimony of Priscilla grinder who was the “only” witness to his death she however, did not see it directly. Some people who are suspects in the possible murder suspects james Wilkinson an army general who once tried to separate from the US and start his own
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Since they said after lewis death Robert had a great deal of money that could explain the death by conspiracy maybe it was a trap to get him to grinder stand so neely could kill him the grinders cover it up and get paid because james Wilkinson and lewis weren’t the best of friends because Wilkinson was the governor of louisana then Jefferson made lewis the governor which could’ve made Wilkinson feel some type of way.Also how cant you belive Priscilla’s story because every time she got interviewed the story changed and if james neely quotes her testimony something is fishy because her testimony isn’t constant and you cant link to one story because every time she changes