The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

This book had more to do with what Lewis and Clark did NOT see then what they did. And Lewis' murder was not until the last chapter. It had some interesting history in it, if you know nothing about the Olmecs of South America, etc., which had NOTHING to do with Lewis and Clark. This book had consistency errors in concepts as well. This book was weird. I feel like I still don't know what Lewis and Clark saw! Was Lewis murdered? Well, the last chapter may be worth it to some people and not to others.

Reading this fasinating report of America's secret history in the way of giant bones, blond and Red haired, blue and green eyed indians, of the coin's over a million years old, of the Pawnee Indians telling Wild Bill Cody of their history of living with the giants and the flood that came and killed all the giants to punish them for not respecting the Spirit God and beings of evil intent toward the gods is so facinating a story that it is not only difficult to put the book down you wish it read more. The truly facinating story of Lewis and Clark and their journey across America and the meetings of the indian's across the Great America to their hero's welcome back home and to the sadly disturbing death of the beloved Meriweather Lewis leaves one the desire to learn more. This book is so packed with verifible information that is impossible to list it all here, from our Forefathers to the world banks of England prior to the war with King George to the family of our dear Meriweather in the present 2009 asking for the cold case to be reopened and the death of their great ancestor be now studied. Wonderful wonderful book. As I gave this book only four star's and not the five it deserves, the book leaves you begging for more and for this reason only I gave it a four star rating.

Conspiracy theories are rife in today's society. From the Kennedys to the X-Files and everything in between, we just can't seem to get enough. While that's not a bad thing, many books that present alternative theories veer towards the sensational. Luckily, that's not the case with Schrag and Haze's book.Meticulously researched and written in an intelligent, engaging style,  The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition  provides the reader with both the accepted overview of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the most plausible alternate theories. The chapters involving the Mandan tribes around Cahokia and the political intrigue that surrounded Lewis post-expedition are both fascinating in their own way.The authors close with an overview of ALL the possibilities and leave it to the reader to judge for him or herself. Was Lewis a suicide, as the official records state? Or was he murdered by political rivals? There are compelling reasons for both, and while the authors obviously side on the idea of murder, they are wise enough to present the evidence for the official record, rather than just stating "It's a coverup!" as so many similar tomes have done.Well-written, well-researched, and engaging, this book offers something to armchair explorers, alternate history buffs, and conspiracy theorists alike...seamlessly. Recommended.

4 Stars because, though it was a good read. There were really only two main mysterious discoveries that Lewis and Clark came upon. And the book has a whole section dedicated to giants and stories of them but there wasnt a connection to be made to Lewis and Clark. They never documented any giants. I do realize there are several hundred missing pages to Lewis' journel but one can only speculate what was in them. I was hoping for some crazy stuff to be in this book and that wasnt really the case. But it was well worth the read nevertheless.

This reading have me a further depth of knowledge into American history. Never know the extent of the Lewis& Clark exposition and how they worked for the US government and that they were men that being to the order of the Masons.One thing that we know for sure is that the was a lot of culture and native tribes in full glory with their customs that were in practice when the exploitation traveled west, and the sole purpose was for the further exploitation of territory and resources for early land grabbers.

A highly entertaining and interesting rendition of highlights of the Lewis & Clark expedition in itself, but the author also drops many other "tidbits" relating to things such as "anomalous" artifacts in America relating to possible presence of Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Hebrew, Welsh, etc in pre-Colombian America. Also many "tidbits" relating to Smithsonian "shenanigans" relating to general policies and "unauthorized artifacts"; thus, it is an intriguing read covering more topics than the title might indicate. Regarding the death of Lewis, more details/"facts" are relayed in either the America Unearthed or Brad Meltzer tv series (I forgot which series it was - perhaps both???, but much more evidence was discussed than presented in this book which went further in supporting the "murder hypothesis"). I recommend this book for interest, readability, intrigue, and diverse background commentary on early American "Illuminati plotting" related to the early History of the country -including excerpts on the topic from Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, etc. without overly belaboring each issue.-If you have an interest in these diverse subject areas you will consider this a "very good 'fast' read"!

This was disappointing,it offered nothing new ,just rehashing old stories.Was there an older civilsation in the Americas which disappeared completely,no new evidence just questions,who built what and when.We're there giants same old evidence ,please thigh bones twice as tall as a man ,obviously fossilized dinosaur bones.Smithsonian hides evidence ,yes we know but no new evidence.Was Barriers that Lewis murdered of course he was but he offer no new suspects or evidence .Was a disappointing book.

I enjoyed reading this book, I am no historian and cannot comment on academic rigour, although the bibliography appears to support some serious research. I bought this book as I wanted to know a little more about the LewIs and Clark expedition, and I did learn qute a bit. The `murder` bit though appears a bit of an add-on at the end. I think I appreciate the allegations of `suppressed history` to support the expansion of the U.S and it raises and repeats some very awkward assumptions on US history. This was the first I have heard of a Welsh native American tribe though!It has made me search out other similar books to read.

I think anyone who is interested in history should read this book. Excellent doorway to the a more balanced open mined view on history.

I enjoyed reading this as it allowed me to question what is real and what isn’t and how much we should mistrust the so called experts as they all gave their own agenda’s. I was left wondering what other points of important history do the worlds governments hide from us because it suits them.

Ich hatte mir mehr von der Ankündigung bei Kindle und bei dem Titel versprochen. Insgesamt war der Inhalt des Buches langweilig und wenig informativ.