User:Kira Gale

Kira Gale is the author of Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America (River Junction Press LLC, 1996) and the co-author with James E. Starrs of The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historic Crime Scene Investigation (River Junction Press LLC, 2009). She has appeared on C-Span BookTV discussing the death of Meriwether Lewis, and on the Brad Meltzer's Decoded Series on the History Channel, in the episode entitled "Presidential Secret Codes." Her press, River Junction Press,is distributed by Independent Publishers Group of Chicago. Both books have extensive websites, www.lewisandclarkroadtrips.com and www.deathofmeriwetherlewis.com. She received the Meritorious Achievement Award of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation in 2007 for her work on behalf of the foundation. She blogs and send e-newsletters. Lewis and Clark Road Trips contains over 800 destinations from Washington DC to the Pacific Coast, and from the Canadian border to New Orleans, related to Lewis and Clark and their time period. The Death of Meriwether Lewis is a book in three parts: the trial testimony of the Coroner's Inquest held in Lewis County, Tennessee in 1996 regarding the death of Lewis; twenty primary documents relating to the death of Lewis; and Gale's 85 page narrative of Lewis's last years and why she thinks he was assassinated and who she thinks did it. Briefly, she believes it was a conspiracy organized by General James Wilkinson to prevent Lewis from interfering with their plans to invade Mexico and take control of its silver mines. Professor Starrs is an emeritus professor of forensic law at George Washington University. Starrs organized the modern Coroner's Inquest, which features the testimony of some of the most respected experts in various fields. The coroner's jury requested an exhumation. Despite repeated requests from over 200 descendants of the Lewis family, this exhumation has not been authorized by the Department of Interior, which has jurisdiction over the National Monument site.