Sacagawea: The Shoshone Interpreter of the Corps of Discovery
Recruitment at Fort MandanSacagawea entered the expedition record indirectly, through her husband. On November 4,…
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Sacagawea
Analyses (4)
View allSacagawea’s Capture Site and a Captain Lost Among Beaver Dams
1805-07-30The entries for July 30, 1805, ascending Jefferson's River from the Three Forks, reveal a…
The Shoshone Nation: Sacagawea’s People and the Horse Trade
Introduction: A Nation Long AnticipatedLong before Lewis and Clark ever laid eyes on a Shoshone…
Toussaint Charbonneau: The Interpreter Who Brought Sacagawea
IntroductionToussaint Charbonneau appears in the journals of Lewis and Clark less as a celebrated figure…
Art (7)
View allAllegorical Scene of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Cogniet's painting presents the Lewis and Clark Expedition not as a documentary scene but as…
Historic Homecoming. Sacajawea, the Bird Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, finds her Shoshone people on Horse Prairie Creek, Montana
Jackson's watercolor depicts the reunion between Sacagawea and her Shoshone relatives at the headwaters of…
Lewis and Clark at the Three forks
Paxson's large canvas depicts the Corps of Discovery at the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison,…
Lewis and Clark Reach Shoshone Camp Led by Sacajawea the “Bird Woman”
Russell's painting depicts the meeting between the Corps of Discovery and a Shoshone band on…
Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea at the Great Falls of Missouri
Seltzer's small oil shows the Corps of Discovery party at the Great Falls of the…
Sacajawea and Jean-Baptiste
Alice Cooper's bronze depicts Sacagawea standing upright, her right arm extended outward in a gesture…
The Pacific from Point of Clark’s View
Charles Fritz's painting depicts the view westward from Tillamook Head on the northern Oregon coast,…
