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'The expedition generally moved quickly through Indian territory without conflict,' said Morris, a writer and editor with the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts at BYU. Although all but one of the corps came back unscathed from the original mission (one died of appendicitis early in the voyage), a handful died at the hands of American Indians in their later wanderings. Having completed their three-year, 8,000-mile trek in 1806, many of the adventurers could not resist the call of the wild and began lives of trapping and exploration on the frontier. What were once just names on the expedition's roster are now compelling individuals with lives before and after the great journey.'

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'This book gives readers a full cast of characters. Ronda, a professor of western American history at the University of Tulsa. 'All too often the Corps of Discovery has been reduced to the tale of two men-Lewis and Clark,' said James P. Morris and published by the Yale University Press, coincides with festivals planned to celebrate the anniversary of the exploration and chronicles the lives of those who opened the American West.

'The Fate of the Corps,' authored by Larry E. Two hundred years after the Lewis and Clark expedition began, the story of what became of the 33 voyagers after their journey's end is finally told in a new book by a Brigham Young University writer.