Sacagawea
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Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea
Sacagawea (right) with Lewis and Clark at the Three Forks, mural at Montana House of Representatives
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1918) by Charles Marion Russell. Lewis and Clark reach the Shoshone camp led by Sacagawea.
Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell. A painting of the Expedition depicting Sacagawea with arms outstretched
Sakakawea obelisk at the believed site of her death, Mobridge, South Dakota, 2003
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
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Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, sometimes known in childhood as Pompey or Little Pomp, was an American explorer, guide, fur trapper, trader, military scout during the Mexican–American War, alcalde of Missi
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…people. She and her family traveled mostly in the co-captains' company, ate near or with them, and shared the same tent. Lewis recorded the birth of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805, noting that another of the party's interpreters administered crushed rattlesnake rattles in water to speed the delivery, which…
Memorial to Charbonneau at Fort Washakie
7th Baronet of Blair, 1837, by Alfred Jacob Miller
Inskip ruins
The First & Third Markers