Henry Dearborn
Henry Dearborn (1751–1829) served as Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson during the planning and execution of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In this capacity, he authorized the military personnel and supplies for the Corps of Discovery and facilitated Lewis's recruitment of soldiers from frontier Army posts. The Dearborn River in Montana was named in his honor by Lewis during the expedition.
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Cross-Narrator Analyses
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Dearborn’s River and a Party Sent Ahead: Three Views of July 18, 1805
On a single day above the Great Falls, the captains name a tributary, dispatch an advance party to find the Shoshone, and…
Ninian Edwards in the Lewis & Clark Journals: A Figure at the Margins of the Record
Though Ninian Edwards loomed large in the territorial politics of the trans-Mississippi West during and after the Corps of Discovery's expedition, the…
From Heacock's Writings
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