Mason lodges.............Freemasons...........pyramids...............obelisks............as in ancient Egypt......like the Wash. Monument here in Dc............................


Lewis authorized the construction of Fort Madison on the Mississippi River and Fort Osage on the Missouri River. His attention was also demanded by the Osage Indians, who protested treaties and whose land had been encroached upon by emigrant tribes such as the Cherokee. Lewis faced additional pressures from his superiors regarding his infrequent correspondence and his handling of land claims, mining disputes, unlicensed traders, intertribal warfare, and the delayed return of Mandan Chief Sheheke (who had traveled with Lewis to Washington, D.C.) to his village. Secretary of War William Eustis refused to honour some of Lewis’s expense vouchers, which destroyed Lewis’s credit and sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, Lewis had been successful in publishing territorial laws, supporting St. Louis’s inaugural newspaper, and establishing the first Masonic lodge in Missouri