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Jun
30
Thursday
Jun
30
Thu
Community :: History also Community :: Lecture
Meriwether Lewis: "So Hard to Die"
4:30 PM
Montana Historical Society (east of the Capitol)
Meriwether Lewis: Description:
at 4:30 p.m. June 30, explore the mystery of Meriwether Lewis’s death after the famed 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition. The lecture and book signing by Dave and Marti Peck, who co-authored “So Hard to Die,” which examines how Lewis returned from the perilous journey with the hope of a bright future, only to die from two gunshots three years later at age 35 in a lonely inn in rural Tennessee. His death originally was ruled a suicide, but various medical and psychological theories have been proposed by historians and others. This will be livestreamed and archived on the MTHS YouTube channel.
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Age Group: Adults
Venue: Montana Historical Society (east of the Capitol)
Address: 225 North Roberts Helena, MT 59620
Phone: (406) 444-2694

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