Despite his duties as a non-commissioned officer, Gass sometimes joined the expedition's hunting trips. He experienced no outstanding adventures on the journey, and no major injuries or illnesses. However, he did slip in a canoe and fell back across the gunwale which invalided him off the Jefferson River and into Lewis' advance party that located the Shoshones in August 1805.
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AFTERWARDS
Gass stayed in the Army after the expedition and served in the War of 1812.
At one point during the war, he worked under Daniel Boone in the construction of a small, temporary fort on the Mississippi River known as Fort Independence, or "Cap-au-Gris."
At the Battle of Lundy's Landing, he suffered the loss of an eye and was discharged from the Army.
--Brock-Perry
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