Nicholas Biddle
Nicholas Biddle was a Philadelphia lawyer, financier, and later president of the Second Bank of the United States who served as the editor of the first comprehensive published account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. After Meriwether Lewis's death in 1809 left the expedition journals unpublished, William Clark entrusted the manuscripts to Biddle, who worked with journalist Paul Allen to produce the two-volume "History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark" in 1814. This edition shaped public understanding of the expedition for generations.
Cross-Narrator Analyses
Analyses that cite or discuss Nicholas Biddle — showing 4 of the most recent matches.
Two Departures at the Mandan Villages: Colter Turns Back, Sheheke Heads East
The entries of Patrick Gass and John Ordway for August 17, 1806, document the same sequence of events near the Mandan villages:…
Cameahwait: The Lemhi Shoshone Chief Who Traded Horses
First Contact in the MountainsCameahwait — chief of a band of Lemhi Shoshone encountered west of the Continental Divide in August 1805…
Charles Marion Russell: The Cowboy Artist and the Lewis & Clark Imagination
A Figure Outside the Journal RecordCharles Marion Russell is tagged in this project as a key figure associated with the Lewis and…
Sacagawea: The Shoshone Interpreter of the Corps of Discovery
Recruitment at Fort MandanSacagawea entered the expedition record indirectly, through her husband. On November 4, 1804, Clark’s journal for that day records…
From the Heacock Memorial Archive
7 lewis-clark.org articles that mention Nicholas Biddle, preserved here for Robert Heacock’s photography. The articles were written by that site’s contributing authors.
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