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
Analyses that cite or discuss Henry Dearborn — showing 2 of the most recent matches.
Dearborn’s River and a Party Sent Ahead: Three Views of July 18, 1805
The journals for July 18, 1805 capture a pivot in the expedition's progress up the Missouri above the Great Falls. The corps…
Ninian Edwards in the Lewis & Clark Journals: A Figure at the Margins of the Record
A Note on SourcesThe corpus of journal entries supplied for this synthesis contains zero references to Ninian Edwards. No narrator — not…
From the Heacock Memorial Archive
4 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Henry Dearborn, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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