After Lewis' tragic demise, Wilkinson's men including Major James Neely, Lewis' shady companion during the final leg of his journey, covered up all evidence of murder, took most of Lewis' valuable belongings and incriminating evidence and paid off the owners of the cabin where Lewis had died to keep quiet and repeat the agreed cover story of suicide if anyone ever asks them about it. We follow the Corps of Discovery as they winded their way across the unknown territory gained in the Louisana Purchase by the United States in their futile search for the legendary Northwest Passage.
It is a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, DC. This film documents the exploration expedition led by Meriwether Lewis William Clark into the interior of North America in the early 19th century. Cinematography was by Buddy Squires, Ken Burns and Allen Moore. The editors were Paul Barnes and Erik Ewers. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, directed by Ken Burns, written by Dayton Duncan, and coproduced by Florentine Films, WETA- TV, Washington, D.C., and Turner Home Entertainment for PBS television. The book suggests that Lewis had evidence against Wilkinson and that this was the real reason why he had decided to personally travel to Washington by horse in 1809. LEWIS & CLARK: THE JOURNEY OF THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY was directed and produced by Ken Burns, and written and produced by Dayton Duncan. He was also the first Governor of Louisiana Territory until Lewis took over this duty. army during the first three American Presidents who was discovered after his death to have been a spy for the Spanish Crown.
For instance, in one of the first chapters of The Secret History of Twin Peaks, a companion book to the television series Twin Peaks, it's theorized in great semi-fictional detail, some of it based on actual historical facts, that the man behind the conspiracy to murder Meriwether Lewis was none other than General James Wilkinson, commander of the U.S.
It is produced by Burns' Florentine Films for Washington, DC PBS station WETA-TV, first aired on PBS on November 4 and 5, 1997. Examples of this discussion can be found in pop culture as well. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is a 1997 television documentary miniseries about the Lewis and Clark Expedition directed and co-produced by Ken Burns. Due to numerous inconsistencies, oddities and lack of hard facts and evidence, the death of Meriwether Lewis became, in time, a topic of great discussion, wild speculation and genuine controversy as more and more people including some historians began to favor the idea that he was in fact murdered.