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Dear Friends of Lewis & Clark,  This will be a one topic newsletter as I am working hard on our new book.
Advance Reading Copies (ARC's) will be available by the first of the year. If you want to obtain a copy for purposes of review or sales, please let me know and I will add you to the list. It will be helpful if you let me know now, so that I may determine the digital press print run. If you know a book reviewer or reporter, or a book store owner, please pass the word.
The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation will be published by my press, River Junction Press LLC in April, 2009 and distributed by IPG. (336 pages, 6x9, $16.95)
My co-author is James E. Starrs, a professor of forensic sciences at George Washington University. The first part of the book contains the coroner's inquest testimony of the 13 forensic sciences experts and historians who testified at the inquest regarding the death of Meriwether Lewis held at Hohenwald, Tennessee in 1996.
The proceedings called for an exhumation of Lewis's remains to see if the cause of death could be determined. As readers of this newsletter know, when his remains were exhumed in 1848, the Lewis Monument Committee reported that it was most likely he died at the hands of an assassin.
I have included many primary documents plus some very startling new information in the second section of documents and photos.
Now I have to finish writing the third section, the story of his last three years of life. The blogs I have been posting over the last year are a working draft.
I am happy to report that two Biddles were sold this month, who are now in their new homes in Massachusetts and North Carolina. We can look forward to new adventures. The Bellevue Biddle has just returned from a week long exploration of the trail in Washington and Oregon, and his photos will be posted soon on the forums.
Kira kira@lewisandclarktravel.com Newsletter Archive
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Ed Norton talks about HBO Lewis & Clark mini-series on CBS Early Show
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 Ed Norton was born on the same day as Meriwether Lewis, August 18th! Doesn't he look like Lewis? Norton was born in 1969. and Lewis was born in 1774. It seems like fate is at work.
Norton appeared on the CBS Early Show with Harry Smith on October 23, 2008
Here is a link to to the video clip, which runs for 3:57 minutes. He talks about the HBO project at about 2:39 minutes. He's plugging his newest film, Pride and Glory. Turns out
 CBS news anchor Harry Smith is a big Lewis and Clark fan.
CBS news video link
Just like I figured, the project is still tackling the hardest part of all--writing the story line! Writer/director Michelle Ashford has a "daunting task" as we say in the Lewis and Clark business. Ashford wrote the John Adams HBO mini-series.
Brad Pitt will be co-starring with Ed Norton. We have a lot to look forward to because National Geographic is co-producing with the stars and Ashford. National Geographic did a great job of the physical aspects of the expedition in their film, Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West. Check out their website to see a lot of good images from the film.
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Please contact me with news, corrections, suggestions; and for how to order autographed copies of Lewis and Clark Road Trips with personal messages.
Sincerely,
Kira Gale
River Junction Press LLC kira@lewisandclarktravel.com
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The original Biddle traveling the trail with the DESC guys on the Ohio River 2007
Biddle hanging out
on the Ohio River trip
Betty Kluesner and Biddle
(Betty was his adopted owner for the trip)
The original Biddle owned by Vicki Correia meets an 830 pound Grizzly Bear at Lincoln, Montana
What do you do when you meet an 800 pound grizzly bear?
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