Why Did Meriwether Lewis Die

How did Meriwether Lewis die William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were two revolutionary American explorers who had a big part in purchasing and exploring the Louisiana territory. Lewis was closely acquainted with President Jefferson and Jefferson is the one who went through with the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis was travelling to DC to collect his debt and sell his important papers and documents. On October 11, 1809 Meriwether Lewis was found dead at grinders stand inn with two gunshot wounds in his body, one in his stomach and one in the back of his head. This death has been ruled out as a suicide for the past 200 years. Historians have argued throughout the century’s weather Lewis’ death was a murder or suicide. I am here to rule out the suicide

He was broke and had no money. The whole reason he was travelling to DC to meet Madison was to collect his debt money. The gun used to kill him was an expensive gun that a man in debt could not afford, so explain to me why a man in debt, would use two expensive guns to kill himself before collecting his money? It doesn’t add up. In the video we watched most of the evidence we received led us to think Lewis’ death was murder not suicide. Although it was very common for inns to kill and rob their guests, but there were many people who would’ve had motive to kill Lewis. He had made enemies because of his important placement in office, some of these enemies included James Wilkinson. The Lewis and Wilkinson rivalry was known to be bitter. Lewis had rejected Wilkinsons invitation to establish western territories. Jefferson had chosen Lewis over Wilkinson many times without Wilkinsons consent. Wilkinson had a reputation of being an assassin, just think about that for a second. Another suspect is James Neely. James Neely said he was at grinders stand and found Lewis dead but he had lied. He was not where he said he was at the time because he was actually in court being put on trial. Another bit of information from this video ruling out suicide is that the letter that claims Lewis committed suicide was forged. So we have two prime suspects and a forged