The post also carried a fixed , which protruded through an aperture in the front of the bolt, firing the next round at the foremost part of the piston's travel.
After Lewis' father died from pneumonia, his mother and stepfather, Captain John Marks, moved him and his siblings to Georgia in what is now Oglethorpe County.
Emigration to followed the of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers.
Accomplishments Despite his tragic end, Lewis helped change the face of the United States by exploring a vast unmapped territory — the American West.
Together they explored the lands west of the Mississippi.
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