The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Found this book to be very good reading, you learn things about America in the early 1800's that make you wonder why you've never heard of this stuff before. Some of it based on Lewis and Clarks notes from their journey, there is also some history from the various Spanish explorers that toured Florida and what was to become America, plus some on the mounds and mound builders found in various parts of America. I read the book twice, it was that good plus there is a lot to digest if you like history.
After you read the account of Meriwether Lewis's murder you will wonder how the historical taught version ever came to be.
Try it, it's good.

I really loved this book. The book started out focusing only on pre-columbian contact, which has a place and is very interesting, but it was when it got to the Lewis and Clark expedition that it really got interesting. This book also spends much time focusing on the little known political climate of the early 19th century.

This book was a great read and presents some excellant arguments to cause serious questions in relation to "accepted" history. It has made a great addition to my ever growing "alternate" educational library. It also helped confirm my already deeply founded belief that just because institutionalized history teaches us that that is the definitive way it happened doesnt necessarily mean that it's true. It was worth every penny I paid for it.

I must admit some disappointment in my knowledge of those times! History apparently is written by the winners. I enjoyed the theories presented and their supporting evidence. I will endeavor to see all sides of history.

We have been lied too in the American text books. This book is a real eye opener. I am thankful that some are stepping forward to expose what our fore fathers really did and just what nationalities were here long before Columbus. Couldn't put the book down.

complete waste of time and money. how many "secrets" of the expedition are revealed? zero, unless the details about the mandan being pale and living in a walled village are new to you. if lewis was murdered, it wasnt for anything contained here.

This was poorly written and not worth the money. The author did no first hand research or digging into primary sources and just quoted other peoples research. The writing was completely convoluted and read like a high school students research paper. There is almost no real investigation into the actual death and most of the book belongs to the tin foil had brigade. SAVE YOUR MONEY and buy a different book by a real author

I did find some of the information provided interesting but the title is somewhat misleading. The book is sporadic jumping from one subject to another in several parts of the world. It seems the book grasped for bits of information trying to fill the 147 pages.
Don't expect this book to blow you away with an abundance of suppressed history. Lots of skeptical assumptions.

I was attracted to this book because of the reference to Meriwether Lewis. The authors made so many obvious mistakes in their time line and geography that I promptly put the book down. On pp. 49-51 they have the Corps of Discovery meeting the Sioux before they explored Spirit Mound when in fact they explored Spirit Mound August 24, 1804, and had the confrontation with the Sioux beginning September 25, 1804. Then on p. 50 they say if Lewis and Clark had proceeded a few miles from Spirit Mound they would have seen Cahokia. Spirit Mound is in South Dakota. Cahokia is in Illinois across the Mississippi from St. Louis. If authors can't get easily checked facts straight, why would anyone even listen to, let alone believe, their complex theories?

This is an interesting book claimed to be related to the famous Lewis & Clark Expedition. However, the authors unearth and cover many topics not usually known in the main stream media or textbook. As for the Native Americans, the authors touch upon Olmec culture and readers are advised to google Mike Xu for his comparison of Olmex and Chinese ancient culture.
The book pointed out the summary by Lee Baker (p.29), "industrializing America . . . needed to explain the calamities created by unbridled westward, overseas, and industrial expansion. although expansion created wealth and prosperity for some, it contributed to conditions that fostered rampant child labor, infectious disease, and desperate poverty. . . . Many americans realize the contradictions between industrial capitalism and the democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and justice for all."
The book also mentioned Dr. Barry Fell who study ancient rock art and proposed that Celts, Arabs, Phoenicians, and others had visited and traded with Native Americans along before Columbus. Dr Fell faced strong rebuttal from the "authortative academic" with the big guns of Smithsonian's anthropology department (P.105)
Both authors offer different subjects along with Lewis and Clark Expedition. The death of Meriwether Lewis was suicide, murder ? Readers are left to make the conclusion with this speculation. This book may lead readers to explore who are the first Americn, from Europe, Africa, Asia?!

i was actually going to buy this book. but after reading tje sample, i dont think so. sample didnt have any text from the book itself, just the forward and intro. the forward was biased and angry, reducing itself to generalities and name-calling. this guy has an agenda. the intro is more professional, but seems to me that the author has the same agenda. perhaps the forward colored my impression, but the author included it, and having no actual sample must base my choices on what is offered. no sale.

Good information in this book. There is much to follow-up on. Only four stars because I don't think it proved everything it set out to. BUT, just for the information and sources that will lead to further reading make it 4/5 for me.

"But so anxious is the Order to be unembarrassed by all political influences, that treason, however discountenanced by the Craft, is not held as a crime which is amenable to masonic punishment...if a brother should rebel against the State he is not to be countenanced in his rebellion, however he may be pitied as an unhappy man...though the loyal brotherhood must and ought to disown his rebellion and give no umbrage or ground of political jealousy to the government for the time being, they can not expel him from the Lodge, and his relation to it remains indefeasible." Encyclopedia of freemasonry Vol 2 page 836
If the authors claim that Jefferson was not a mason, and he was most certainly a grounded aggrarian, then there is not enough evidence presented in this book to indict him in the murder of Lewis. Where there is a war harlot then there will be a crime.
"Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confederations, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part." T.J.

This book covers a variety of topics surrounding Meriwether Lewis, the Lewis & Clark expedition of discovery, and suppressed and controversial American history episodes. The authors have a clear thesis that there were things discovered during the expedition that were suppressed, such as evidence of giant natives and pre-Columbian European visits to America. This type of material has been well-documented by other authors and researchers (such as Barry Fell in America B.C.) who are referenced here.

Later, the topic of the possible murder of Lewis is addressed, with no clear resolution of that subject. To me this was the greatest weakness in the book, as the title references a murder that isn't conclusively shown to have occurred. There are conflicting accounts from individuals connected to Lewis at that time, which suggest a coverup, and there were certainly people with motives to want him out of the way, but there is no smoking gun evidence of what actually occurred. I was surprised to learn that descendants of Lewis have now officially sought to exhume Lewis' remains for possible evidence of how he truly died.

The background story of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, the Rothschild bankers, and occult intrigues involving secret societies and moneyed interests are tied into the history described here. There really isn't much novel or groundbreaking in this book though the authors do a decent job of placing the Lewis & Clark matters into the context of their historical era and the intrigues that unfolded during that time. The book is relatively short and is written in an accessible way - not hard to follow. For those curious about this era of American history and eager to explore subjects that are often obscured in mainstream historical texts, this will be an enjoyable read.

Whenever I find a book that has "suppressed," "hidden" or "secret" in the title, I often think, "Here we go again, more off-the-wall theories." This book, however, is a pleasent suprise. The truth of early American history has been slowly trickling out. The view we were all taught - the natives were primitives, barely out of the the stone age and isolated from the rest of the world for many millenia - is being shown to be false. This book in some ways is a review of those changes and corrections. We know that those societies weren't so primitive and could accomplish great things and the authors reference the excellent 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which helped people "rediscover" our past. The natives were also here for a very long time (see Settlement Of The Americas A New Prehistory &The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery). Perhaps if over 90% hadn't been killed from disease, maybe we would not have lost so much history.

Early in our country's history, many sought to minimize the natives to justify expansion and takeover of lands. Some just couldn't believe they had been anything sophisticated - so many had died. Others looked to the mounds and native legends and believed they they could have no part of these. People like Joseph Smith took these things and fashioned his Book of Mormon. Extreme diffusionists like him (if he really cared about such things) poison people to this day against pre-Columbus visitors to America. All of the forgotten and lost accounts of white Indians, African statues and giants are clearly contrary to those who think no one arrived before 1492. To the thinking person, such accounts can't be dismissed so easily. While the wild tales of Smith seem to have no basis in reality other than some very basic details, there remains much in early accounts that survive to this day that tell a different story of American origins.

Some say it doesn't matter and that any visitors didn't have any effect on the natives. But is that true? How much of native culture was influenced by visitors? Have we been overlooking the obvious? This doesn't mean that the natives didn't largely build their society on their own. However, no society lives in isolation on this planet. Not then, not now.

So the authors set this against the backdrop of Lewis & Clark and some of the things they discovered. Do any lost journals from that journey reveal more? Were they purposefully hidden or destroyed? Or were they simply lost enroute and contain nothing? We don't know, but to this day old papers occasionally reappear. Perhaps the main weakness of this book is in reading the cover you may think that Lewis' possible murder was because of something he discovered. Yet in the chapter on the evidence pointing to his murder, none points to this conclusion. It's like they wrote the whole book and then, oops, there's nothing to support the theory. It seems his death had nothing to do with it. While we can possibly push mankind's creation to 100,000 years, much older than that is suspect (see Who Was Adam?), but that still leaves much of prehistory lost. The remainder of the material in the book is interesting enough without the misleading back cover. For more on early America, see Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History and Legends, Unearthed and Explored,Unearthing Ancient America: The Lost Sagas of Conquerors, Castaways, and Scoundrels &Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First.

Brings up some valid questions, but fails to follow them to any solid conclusions. This book does bring out some interesting suppressed history of "giants" and "white Indians" that I had found buried in many old history books. Over all it is excellent subject matter, yet fails to follow the questions with in-depth answers.

I was disappointed by this book. There was very little that was new and had not been covered by others that I have read years ago. While I am willing to concede that there is more to the pre-Columbian history of North America that is documented in traditional texts, far too much time was spent rehashing old complaints about the inflexibility of anthropologists. The book was tedious.

Introduction is terrible. Basic insides are good. Book could have been better prepared for an audience if pictures of the referenced placed were published appropriately. There is way too much repetition of Lewis, probably because of different authors forgetting who did what and when in this book, and which author already stated it.

Highly reccomended! I'm not to familiar on the subjects of Lewis and Clark or forgotten American civilizations so this was a fantastic introduction. I'm looking forward to reading more from these two authors.

Introduction is terrible. Basic insides are good. Book could have been better prepared for an audience if pictures of the referenced placed were published appropriately. There is way too much repetition of Lewis, probably because of different authors forgetting who did what and when in this book, and which author already stated it.

Highly reccomended! I'm not to familiar on the subjects of Lewis and Clark or forgotten American civilizations so this was a fantastic introduction. I'm looking forward to reading more from these two authors.

The authors briefly tell the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition throughout the book, but they rather rudely discount most current and past historians, teachers and scholars of the Expedition. They frequently refer to previous works on the Corps of Discovery as false and inaccurate. These two writers seem to see conspiracy around every corner. They accuse the historians of making great leaps in thought, and then they make even greater leaps that at times reach the nonsensical. There is absolutely no new information in this book. Everything that they cite is either in the journals or in a well known book about the expedition. In short, the promises made for astounding discoveries are just not there. Not worth the money or the time.

Didn't actually read this. I decided not to waste my time when I read that the Smithsonian Institution was one of the powerful interests that was involved in the murder of Lewis..., the Smithsonian Institution, founded in 1846, was involved in his death 37 years earlier.

I only read the Kindle sample and that was enough to convince me to not get this book. The intro is written by someone who talks about Indian tribes being descended from Europeans, Native American languages being related to Welsh, alien visitations and Atlantis. It's bad enough the authors would have an introduction written by this type of "expert" but worse yet, the Table of Contents references things like Olmecs, Mississippi Mound Builders, the supposed Welsh-Mandan language connection, etc. What does all this have to do with Meriwether Lewis? Perhaps you need a tinfoil hat to figure out the connection.

Yes the Americas were visited and settled long before Columbus- they're called Native Americans, or First Nations peoples, don't they count? Although I don't doubt that various Europeans reached the "New World" before Columbus, Brendan the Voyager for one, and the Vikings I'm sick of this prevailing attitude in this day and age as though the Native peoples don't actually count as people and can be talked around as though they didn't exist and the Europeans found an empty continent!
I haven't actually read the book, I was just so incensed by the attitude in the first few lines of the blurb I had to say something and I gave three stars to try to be fair because I haven't read it but I'm less than impressed by the attitude.

I'm a European myself, but sometimes I just wonder if we've learned any lessons at all in Western society.