Nathaniel Hale Pryor

Nathaniel Pryor (* 1772 in Virginia; † June 10, 1831 ) was a sergeant in the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Ocean and later joined the Osage Indians to.

He was born in 1772 in Virginia and moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1783. There he married in 1798. Pryor was the cousin of Charles Floyd.

In October 1803 it took William Clark with eight other recruits from Kentucky to Clarksville in Indiana Territory in the expedition, which became known as the Corps of Discovery in the history of the United States. Pryor was the only married a soldier in the expedition. He was promoted to sergeant.

On the way back from the Pacific, when the expedition was divided in the summer of 1806 in several groups, Nathaniel Pryor had the task of bringing the horses that were needed for the crossing of the Rocky Mountains, overland to the Mandan Indians, while the other members of the expedition went in boats on the Missouri River. All horses were stolen by Indians.

After the end of the expedition Nathaniel Pryor lived with the Osage Indians in what is now Oklahoma. He married an Indian woman and started a family. He conducted trade and represented the tribe in negotiations with the U.S. Army until he died in 1831.

The Pryor Creek, Oklahoma and the city of Pryor and the Pryor Mountains in Montana are named after him.

  • Discoverer (19th Century )
  • Participants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Military person (United States)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1772
  • Died in 1831
  • Man
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