Most historians believe Meriwether Lewis came to the Natchez Trace in a roundabout route from Fort Pickering, the site of present-day Memphis, Tennessee. He rode with a Chickasaw Indian agent named James Neely and two servants. A band of four.

Neely had to check in with his agency office, meaning Lewis probably came onto the Trace south of Colbert’s Ferry on the Tennessee River. They rode hard to Grinder’s Stand, where Lewis died.

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