University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition hardcover with dust jacket of Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis by Patricia Tyson Stroud.

Am I crazy or does the author weirdly look a little bit like Meriwether?

"In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy over administrative expenses, Lewis found his reputation and career in tatters. En route to Washington to clear his name, he died mysteriously in a crude cabin on the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. Was he a suicide, felled by his own alcoholism and mental instability?"

Very Good. Nice book with light shelf wear.