Description
Meriwether Lewis, commander of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition that explored the newly purchased Louisiana Territory from 1803-06, returned home from this perilous journey with every hope as well as his country’s expectations of a bright and productive future. Yet within three years, the 35-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. This lecture by authors Drs. David and Marti Peck, based on their new book of the same title, will help shed light on the mysterious historical fate of this American icon.
Dr. David Peck is a retired San Diego physician and author of two books on the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-06. Dr. Peck was a National Endowment for the Arts sponsored speaker during the bicentennial celebration of this great historic event in 2003-06.
Marti Peck, Ph.D. Is a licensed psychologist /adult psychoanalyst who has applied her experience of a 30+ year clinical career in analyzing the mental state of Meriwether Lewis during his life and fateful circumstances that led to his death at the age of 35, reported as a suicide in 1809.
