By His Own Hand? : The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis's death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide?

By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context.

The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different perspectives.

A documents section permits readers to examine the key written evidence for themselves and reach their own conclusions.