Suicide or Murder?: The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Suicide or Murder?: The Strange Death of Governor Meriwether Lewis

The death of Meriwether Lewis is one of the great mysteries of American history. Was he murdered at Grinder&;s Stand or did he commit suicide? Vardis Fisher meticulously reconstructs the events and presents his own version of the case with the precision and persuasiveness of a fine trial lawyer. But Fisher was also a great novelist and it is his sense of character that serves him best here. We know Lewis&; complex sensibility as well as we know that of any man of his time &; his Journals are so self-revealing, so exacting in the record they make of his musings, doubts, and elations. Fisher offers us this complex Lewis and, with equal perceptiveness, sets the rough, frontier scene at Grinder&;s Stand. The result is a fine mystery, well solved, that leans toward tragedy.