William Drummond Stewart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Drummond Stewart

British adventurer

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1795

Place of Birth: Murthly, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Apr-1871

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 December 1795 – 28 April 1871) was a Scottish adventurer and British military officer.
He travelled extensively in the American West for nearly seven years in the 1830s.
In 1837 he took along the American artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, hiring him to do sketches of the trip.
Many of his completed oil paintings of American Indian life and the Rocky Mountains originally hung in Murthly Castle, though they have now been dispersed to a number of private and public collections. After his older brother John Stewart died childless in 1838, William inherited the baronetcy and returned to Scotland.
In 1842 he returned to America, and in the summer of 1843 hosted a private rendezvous-style party at a remote lake in the Rocky Mountains (now called Fremont Lake).
On that trip Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was hired to care for the mules.
The so-called "pleasure trip" ended in a dispute that split the party and caused Stewart to return to Scotland earlier than he had planned.
Stewart has been portrayed for adding a "homosexual dimension" to the historiography of the American frontier.