Sixteen wayside markers recounting aspects of Shannon's career were also placed along the trail, which runs through the region in which Shannon is thought to have wandered during his 1804 separation from the expedition. The organization commissioned thirteen wooden chainsaw sculptures of Shannon, which were placed in participating communities along a 240-mile (390 km) Shannon Trail. In 2001, a number of northeastern Nebraska communities formed Shannon Trail Promoters, with the goal of increasing tourism in the forthcoming bicentennial year of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
George Shannon is the namesake of Shannon County, Missouri. His brothers were Congressman Thomas Shannon (Ohio politician) and Ohio/Kansas Governor Wilson Shannon Legacy By 1822, he owned his home, one horse, three cows, $2480, and six enslaved people. That year, his assets included $700, one cow, and two enslaved people. Barr, a former Transylvania University trustee and Kentucky state legislator. By 1818 he had a law practice in Lexington, Kentucky with Thomas T. Later, Clark asked him to join a fur trading enterprise, but Shannon chose to study law instead. In 1810 he assisted in Nicholas Biddle's history of the expedition. He was wounded in an encounter with the Arikaras and lost a leg he would eventually receive a government pension. In 1807 he was with a party led by Nathaniel Pryor that was attempting to return the Mandan chief Sheheke to his people. He rejoined the party after three days by backtracking to the forks and following the trail of the others. He was dispatched up a fork the party had named Wisdom (the middle fork was named Jefferson and the placid fork, Philanthropy). Shannon got lost again August 6, 1805, when the expedition was at the Three Forks. Then, getting hungry, he went downstream to look for a trading party he could stay with. At first he thought he was behind the expedition, so he sped up thinking he could catch up. On August 26, 1804, he was sent to retrieve two pack horses he was separated from the party for sixteen days and nearly starved, as he went without food for twelve days except for some grapes and rabbits. He joined the Corps of Discovery in August 1803, as one of the three men (and Seaman) from Pittsburgh recruited by Lewis as he was waiting for the completion of the voyage's vessels in the city. George Shannon (1785–1836), the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (not counting the infant Jean Baptiste Charbonneau), was born in Pennsylvania of Irish ancestry.
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