Sacagawea Recognizes Home — Three Forks
At the Three Forks of the Missouri, Sacagawea recognized the area as the place where, five years earlier, a Hidatsa raiding party from the Knife River had captured her from a Shoshone camp. Lewis noted the present camp was on the exact spot of that earlier Shoshone encampment. The captains named the three forks Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin after the President, Secretary of State, and Secretary of the Treasury, and chose to follow the westernmost Jefferson fork in search of the Shoshone and horses needed to cross the mountains.
At the Three Forks of the Missouri, Sacagawea recognized the landscape of her childhood — the very place where she had been captured by a Hidatsa raiding party five years earlier. Lewis recorded the story in detail.
“Our present camp is precisely on the spot that the Snake Indians were encamped at the time the Minnetares of the Knife river first came in sight of them five years since.”
The three forks were named Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin after the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury. The expedition followed the Jefferson fork, the westernmost branch, as they searched for the Shoshone people and the horses they desperately needed to cross the mountains.
Sacagawea’s recognition of the landscape confirmed the expedition was nearing Shoshone territory and increased hopes of making contact soon.
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At the Three Forks of the Missouri, Sacagawea recognized the landscape of her childhood — the very place where she had been captured by a Hidatsa raiding party five years earlier. Lewis recorded the story in detail.
"Our present camp is precisely on the spot that the Snake Indians were camped at the time the Minnetares of the Knife river first came in sight of them five years ago."
The three forks were named Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin after the President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury. The expedition followed the Jefferson fork, the westernmost branch, as they searched for the Shoshone people and the horses they desperately needed to cross the mountains.
Sacagawea's recognition of the landscape confirmed the expedition was nearing Shoshone territory and increased hopes of making contact soon.
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