I'd never heard of him before. Looks like another trip to good ol' Wikipedia.
PATRCK GASS
(June 12, 1771 to April 2, 1870)
Served as a sergeant in the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1804-1806). He was important to the expedition because of his service as a carpenter and he published the first journal of the expedition in 1807, seven years before the first publication based on Lewis and Clark's journals.
He was born in Pennsylvania and began his military career in 1792 in a Virginia militia or ranger company stationed in Wheeling (now West Virginia) fighting Indians. In 1794, he helped build the house of James Buchanan, Sr., near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and became acquainted with the young future president of the United States, James Buchanan.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1803 and served in Kaskaskia, Illinois, near St. Louis.
And, then he entered the history books.
--Brock-Perry
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