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Jefferson's Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis

Tony L. Turnbow

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Description:In Jefferson’s Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis, Tony L. Turnbow explores Lewis’s relationship with his mentor, Thomas Jefferson, and the secret work he performed on Jefferson’s behalf until his mysterious death on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee.Meriwether Lewis, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the few men Jefferson chose to perform spy work or “secret services” as it was called at the time. Jefferson propelled Lewis’s rise from a Charlottesville, Virginia farm, to a residence in the East Room of the White House, and then to a 3,500-mile intelligence-gathering expedition into the unknown across the Rockies to the Pacific. Lewis and his co-captain, William Clark, returned to become two of the first American popular heroes.But Jefferson’s next mission for Lewis would prove a challenge he would not overcome. The work to take Spanish-controlled Texas and Santa Fe entangled Lewis in shadowy networks of spies, assassins, and assorted villains along the enemy border. Lewis died carrying sensitive information to Washington on a road so dangerous it was known as “The Devil’s Backbone.” Though it was claimed that Lewis shot himself two or three times, cut his own throat, and slit his wrists to the bone, Jefferson was informed—and apparently accepted—that Lewis killed himself. Three decades later, a state commission concluded that it was more likely Lewis died at the hands of an assassin.On America’s 250, this first volume of a two-volume series will offer new information to reexamine one of the nation’s most enduring and intriguing mysteries and provide a new perspective on two of its heroes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jefferson's Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis. To get started finding Jefferson's Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 435

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Tony L. Turnbow

Release: 2026

ISBN: 1736260839

Description: In Jefferson’s Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis, Tony L. Turnbow explores Lewis’s relationship with his mentor, Thomas Jefferson, and the secret work he performed on Jefferson’s behalf until his mysterious death on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee.Meriwether Lewis, co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the few men Jefferson chose to perform spy work or “secret services” as it was called at the time. Jefferson propelled Lewis’s rise from a Charlottesville, Virginia farm, to a residence in the East Room of the White House, and then to a 3,500-mile intelligence-gathering expedition into the unknown across the Rockies to the Pacific. Lewis and his co-captain, William Clark, returned to become two of the first American popular heroes.But Jefferson’s next mission for Lewis would prove a challenge he would not overcome. The work to take Spanish-controlled Texas and Santa Fe entangled Lewis in shadowy networks of spies, assassins, and assorted villains along the enemy border. Lewis died carrying sensitive information to Washington on a road so dangerous it was known as “The Devil’s Backbone.” Though it was claimed that Lewis shot himself two or three times, cut his own throat, and slit his wrists to the bone, Jefferson was informed—and apparently accepted—that Lewis killed himself. Three decades later, a state commission concluded that it was more likely Lewis died at the hands of an assassin.On America’s 250, this first volume of a two-volume series will offer new information to reexamine one of the nation’s most enduring and intriguing mysteries and provide a new perspective on two of its heroes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jefferson's Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis. To get started finding Jefferson's Spy: The Secret Life of Meriwether Lewis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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