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November 22, 1804
Explorer Dr. George Hunter’s gun discharged while he was cleaning it, ripping through his thumb and lacerating two fingers. He remained in severe pain and in danger of infection for two weeks and was little help to the expedition, known as the Hunter-Dunbar expedition, which Thomas Jefferson commissioned to explore the “Wachita” River and the “hot springs” of Arkansas.