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George Shannon (c. 1785–1836), the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (not counting the infant Jean Baptiste Charbonneau), was born in Pennsylvania of Irish ancestry. [1] He joined the Corps of Discovery in August 1803, as one of the three men (and Seaman) from Pittsburgh [ 2 ] recruited by Lewis as he was waiting for the completion of the voyage's vessels in the city.
Jun 21, 2017 · Nineteen-year-old George Shannon nervously trotted his horse across the flat ground to the north bank of the Missouri River and began scanning left and right, looking for the other members of the Lewis & Clark party. He was somewhere just west of present-day Yankton, South Dakota. The area is well populated today, but in August 1804 it was ...
Jan 5, 2023 · George Shannon Biography. This biography is from a paper by Carolyn S. Denton originally presented at the 1991 annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in Louisville and subsequently published in “Nine Young Men from Kentucky,” a May 1992 supplementary publication of We Proceeded On, the official publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
May 28, 2009 · Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. By Campbell McGrath. Hardcover, 128 pages. Ecco. List Price: $23.99. Still I would abide by the river. I find it less troublesome. Than the ...
- Campbell Mcgrath
Apr 26, 2010 · George Shannon was the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, just 17 or 18 when he got separated from the rest of the expedition, going after a couple of horses that had broken free. He wandered the high plains along the Missouri River for 16 days and nearly starved to death, since he had gone off with only five bullets in his pouch.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806. The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
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Jun 19, 2019 · Captain Meriwether Lewis (1774–1809) Born 18 August 1774 near Charlottesville, Albermale County, Virginia. Parents: William Lewis and Lucy Meriwether. Commissioned an ensign 1 May 1795; lieutenant 3 March 1799; captain 5 December 1800; resigned 4 March 1807. Died 11 October 1809 at Grinder's Stand on the Natchez Trace, near Hohenwald, Lewis ...
