The Natchez Trace not only mirrors the history of the region and the opening of what was then the southwestern portion of the United States. but it reflects the spirit of an age. Along its paths. Americans and immigrants. filled with hope. marched into the pages of history. ordinary human beings united in an extraordinary purpose. common people dedicated to an uncommon destiny. It was here. on October 11. 1809. that Meriwether Lewis. the hero of the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the great Northwest. met his tragic end. a suicide. Furthermore. it was down the trace that Andrew Jackson led a ragged. halfstarved band of Americans and Indians to defeat the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
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