In addition to Lewis & Clark, he kept a journal of the groups adventures in the new country and 1807, his was the first to be published. He named it "Corps of Discovery." The book was first printed and distributed in Pittsburgh at $1.00 a copy. It was later reprinted in England and translated into French and German.
A reprint is presently being sold by the University of Nebraska Press. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln online version of the Lewis & Clark journals gives 220 entries to the Gass journal.
At the age of 60, he married Maria Hamilton, aged 20. She bore him seven children (six of whom survived into adulthood over the remaining 15 years of her life. They settled in Wellsburg, West Virginia, where he died at 99 years of age, the oldest surviving member of the expedition.
--Brock-Perry
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