Charbonneau Reconsiders: Two Accounts of a Reluctant Interpreter’s Return
1805-03-17The journal entries for March 17, 1805, capture a small but consequential episode in the…
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View allCharbonneau’s Silence and the Crisis on the Lemhi
1805-08-25August 25, 1805, a Sunday, with the expedition split. Four published journals in this corpus…
Jean Baptiste Charbonneau: The Infant Traveler of the Corps of Discovery
Birth at Fort MandanJean Baptiste Charbonneau entered the expedition record on February 11, 1805, when…
Three Voices at Quenett Creek: Ethnography, Weather, and a Quarrel with Charbonneau
1805-10-27The expedition spent October 27, 1805, wind-bound at the mouth of a creek the local…
Toussaint Charbonneau: The Interpreter Who Brought Sacagawea
IntroductionToussaint Charbonneau appears in the journals of Lewis and Clark less as a celebrated figure…
