Le lundi 11 août 1806, le très dépressif Meriwether Lewis est atteint au postérieur par un coup de feu tiré par Peter Cruzatte qui aurait confondu son capitaine avec un wapiti.
Lewis note dans son journal : "... I was in the act of firing on the Elk a second time when a ball struck my left thye about an inch below my hip joint, missing the bone, missing the bone it passed through the left thye and cut the thickness of the bullet across the hinder part of the right thye; the stroke was very severe; I instantly supposed that Cruzatte had shot me in mistake for an Elk as I was dressed in brown leather and he cannot see very well; under this impression I called out to it damn you, you have shot me, and looked towards the place from whence the ball had come, seeing nothing I called Cruzatte several times as loud as I could but received no answer ..."
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Bernard DeVoto (1997), p. 445.
Lewis note dans son journal : "... I was in the act of firing on the Elk a second time when a ball struck my left thye about an inch below my hip joint, missing the bone, missing the bone it passed through the left thye and cut the thickness of the bullet across the hinder part of the right thye; the stroke was very severe; I instantly supposed that Cruzatte had shot me in mistake for an Elk as I was dressed in brown leather and he cannot see very well; under this impression I called out to it damn you, you have shot me, and looked towards the place from whence the ball had come, seeing nothing I called Cruzatte several times as loud as I could but received no answer ..."
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Bernard DeVoto (1997), p. 445.
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