1804, 1807 LOUISIANA EXPEDITION

York is not mentioned in the return to St. Louis of his former expedition master, William Clark in 1807, nor Merriweather Lewis. York may have returned previously after 1804, to live upriver with Indians, who mistakenly thought he was leader of the expedition because of his dark skin, woolly hair, great strength, like the buffalo or Bison. An author named Zeonidas Leonard claimed to see York in the 1840s among the Crow. https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/what-did-explorers-lewis-and-clark-do-when-they-got-back-st-louis?fbclid=IwAR3x0b3o_8yroPqCdOMcu5sdxq5xB3_RHoUydFl67tcaQ8Mtsvp-7U5vfWc#stream/0