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July 22, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sacagawea
  • the murcury stood at 80 a. 0    this is the warmest day except one which we have experienced this summer. The Indian woman (Sacagawea) recognizes the country and assures us that this is the river on which her relations live, and that the three forks (Beaver (White Paint, White Earth, Pryor's Valley) Creek (Broadwater County, Mont.))
  • July 22, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
August 25, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sacagawea
  • I was out of patience with the folly of Charbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) who had not sufficient sagacity to see the consequencies which would inevitably flow from such a movement of the indians, and altho' he had been in possession of this information since early in the morning when it had been communicated to him by his Indian woman (Sacagawea) yet he never mentioned it untill the after noon. I could not forbear speaking to him with some degree of asperity on this occasion.
  • August 25, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
November 21, 1805 - Clark, William
  • Sacagawea
  • We have not had One cold day Since we passed below the last falls or great Shute (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute)) & Some time before    the Climent is temperate, and the only change we have experienced is from fair weather to rainey windey weather—    I made a chief & gave a medel    this man is name Tow-wâll (Tow-wall) and appears to have Some influence with the nation and tells me he lives at the great Shute (Columbia River, Cascades (Great Rapids, Great Shute)) —    we gave the Squar (Sacagawea) a Coate of Blue Cloth for the belt of Blue Beeds we gave for the Sea otter Skins purchased of an Indian.   
  • November 21, 1805
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
July 1, 1806 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sacagawea
  • (Clark, William) with the remaining ten including Charbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) and York (York) will proceed to the Yellowstone river (Yellowstone River) at it's nearest approach to the three forks of the missouri (Missouri River, Three Forks of the) , here he will build a canoe and decend the Yellowstone river (Yellowstone River) with Charbono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) the indian woman (Sacagawea) , his servant York (York) and five others to the missouri (Missouri River) where should he arrive first he will wait my arrival.
  • July 1, 1806
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • The reason, it hardly need be said, was his then noticeably pregnant fourteen-or fifteen-year-old Indian wife, Sacagawea. She, along with another of Charbonneau's women, accompanied him to the embryonic fort.
  • Pronunciation is important, according to Sacagawea aficionados, because the name spelled with a g or k and accented on the second syllable is Hidatsa and means "Bird Woman."
  • For the spellings and their meanings: Jackson, Letters, 316n; Appleman, 115–17. I follow Kenneth O. Owens, "Sacagawea," in Lamar, 1055, for her age. Cutright, Pioneering Naturalists, 110.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
North Dakota Quarterly 71.2 (2004): 6–27.
  • John Ordway was grateful when, as the ranking sergeant, he received one of the four buffalo robes brought to the fort on November II, 1804—Sacagawea's first contribution to the success of the expedition, given as a gift on the day she first appeared (albeit namelessly) in the Lewis and Clark world. Interestingly enough, Sacagawea is never mentioned by name in any journal written in the state of North Dakota.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Clay S. Jenkinson
July 26, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Sacagawea
  • Since Clark (Clark, William) did not meet them, his information may have derived either from Sacagawea (Sacagawea) or from his sources for the Estimate of Eastern Indians, that is, from the Mandans (Mandan Indians) , Hidatsas (Hidatsa Indians) , and white fur traders.
  • July 26, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
August 15, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sacagawea
  • Capt Clark (Clark, William) was very near being bitten twice today by rattlesnakes, the Indian woman (Sacagawea) also narrowly escaped.    they caught a number of fine trout.
  • August 15, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Also riding in the white pirogue were Sacagawea and her two-month-old baby, her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, the hunter-interpreter George Drouillard, and captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
  • His was not the only ailment. Sacagawea, normally active and helpful, awoke wan and listless in the leather tent the morning after Lewis's purge.
  • At some point during the hurly-burly, Clark noticed that Sacagawea was suffering from more than an ordinary indisposition. Severe pains in the lower abdomen.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
J & MC Quarterly 80.4 (2003): 866–883
  • By the time of the expedition's centennial, Sacagawea became another prominent Corps figure to be honored by statues, books, and plays.
  • Too, the supporters of the Women's Suffrage movement saw in Sacagawea a national hero. At the Portland Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905, Susan B.
  • Yet, Sacagawea's hero status continues; by 2000, she became only the second woman honored with a U.S. coin.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Betty Houchin Winfield
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • In one of these encounters they captured Sacagawea, then still only about ten years old. Smallpox struck the Upper Missouri tribes in 1837, when it was brought upstream by an American Fur Company supply ship, further reducing the Mandan population to only about 150.
  • When the expedition returned in mid-August of 1806, Sacagawea (the preferred North Dakota spelling is Sakakawea, based on the original Hidatsa), her son, and Charbonneau all remained behind, as did John Coulter.
  • The five villages at this site once held a maximum of 3,000 to 5,000 Mandans and Hidatsas, and it was at one of them (the upstream Hidatsa village) that Sacagawea was living with Charbonneau at the time of Lewis and Clark's visit.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • As the boats were passing a small creek whose banks showed patches of white earth, Sacagawea made her first gesture of recognition. At this place her people collected material for white body paint.
  • Five years previously, according to Sacagawea, talking through her husband, her family had been encamped with a mobile village of Shoshoni at exactly the spot where the American explorers were then resting.
  • As for little Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Sacagawea's son—but that's another story, for later on. After the boats picked up Lewis the following day, his sense of the expedition's predicament grew to urgency.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
The Men of the Lewis & Clark Expedition The Men of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
  • How much more would we learn from the personal accounts of others on the expedition, such as York, Clark's black slave; or Sacagawea, the young Shoshone woman, and Charbonneau, her French Canadian husband; or the other enlisted men?
  • Similar questions could be asked–and left unanswered–about Sacagawea, the only woman, mother, and full-blood Indian on the expedition.
  • But she is absent from the recorded story as often as she is in it, and her point of view is available only through speculation. What Sacagawea and York have in common–and, to a lesser extent, what Charbonneau, George Drouillard (a mixed-blood of French and Shawnee descent), the baby Jean Baptiste, and even what the dog, Seaman, also share–is what sets them apart from those we call simply "the men."
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Charles G. Clarke
August 3, 1806 - Clark, William
  • Sacagawea
  • Shabono (Charbonneau, Toussaint) his wife (Sacagawea) & child (Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste) & my man York (York) .
  • August 3, 1806
  • Journals
  • Clark, William
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • But what really wiped the fears away was the sight of Sacagawea coming up the hill with her eight-month-old son in his carrier on her back.
  • Presumably the captains sent all nonswimmers, including Sacagawea and her baby, and the most valuable goods around the cauldron.
  • Many of the crew—Clark listed Reuben Field, Peter Wiser, Hugh McNeal, and Sacagawea—vomited in agonized seasickness over the sides of the dugouts they were in.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
August 13, 1805 - Lewis, Meriwether
  • Sacagawea
  • It was again probably Biddle (Biddle, Nicholas) who drew the red vertical line through this passage about cacti. In the absence of Sacagawea (Sacagawea) and Charbonneau (Charbonneau, Toussaint) the conversation must have been in sign language, in which Drouillard (Drouillard, George) was proficient.
  • August 13, 1805
  • Journals
  • Lewis, Meriwether
Lewis & Clark among the Indians
  • The Way Home Afterword Appendix: A Note of Sacagawea Bibliography Introduction to the Bicentennial Edition Henry David Thoreau once asked, "how many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book?"
  • In the popular mind Jefferson's Corps of Discovery had only three members—Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea. Donald Jackson's magisterial Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition changed all that for those who were paying attention.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Fortunately the early hostility of the latter tribe thawed; for the Hidatsas, the captors of Sacagawea, were accustomed to range as far west as the Continental Divide during their horse-stealing raids against the Snake Indians. There is no evidence, incidentally, that the young Snake woman, Sacagawea, contributed in any way to the production of the map. The obstacles to accurate mapping were prodigious.
  • Interpreters George Drouillard and Toussaint Charbonneau. York, Sacagawea, and her two-month-old infant, Baptiste. And Clark should have added the dog Seaman, who ate as much as any one of the men.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • From Travelers' Rest camp (about 20 miles south of Missoula) Captain Clark and a group of 20 men, plus Sacagawea and her son, began traveling southward on July 3, progressively making their way past the sites of present-day Hamilton and Jackson.
  • Map of route of Lewis and Clark in Western Montana as Far as Three Forks Captain Clark and his remaining 12-person contingent (10 men plus Sacagawea and her 17-month-old son, Baptiste) and their horses moved overland across Bozeman Pass and reached the upper Yellowstone ("Rochejhone") River near the present site of Livingston on July 15, 1806.
  • They gradually made their way down the Yellowstone, making a short stop on July 25 at a sandstone promontory that Clark named "Pompy's Tower" in honor of Sacagawea's son, whom Clark had nicknamed Pompy. There Captain Clark inscribed his own name and the date.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • Not long after Lewis's death, Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and Pomp, the child well weaned by then, came down the river to visit Clark.
  • Clark was well aware of this, of course, and it was perhaps through his influence that Charbonneau got a job at the new establishment as interpreter. He moved there with Sacagawea, who was pregnant, in early 1812. A daughter, Lizette, was born to them in August. Four months later, on December 20, Sacagawea died of what the post trader called putrid fever. She was about twenty-three.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • On either side of the captains' quarters were somewhat smaller rooms, each with a chimneyed fireplace in its center. Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and their child were to occupy one. The other, the orderly room, served as the office of the sergeant of the guard and his three men, a rotating assignment.
  • Clark does not say what he gave, just what he received—articles of clothing from Lewis, a pair of moccasins from Whitehouse, a small Indian basket from Goodrich, and two dozen white weasel tails from Sacagawea. The captains divided half of the expedition's remaining tobacco among the smokers; nonsmokers, a decided minority, received silk handkerchiefs.
  • He selected twelve men to go with him in two boats, enough to hold large quantities of blubber. Just before departure, Sacagawea begged to go along. She had not visited the great water during Clark's trip to Cape Disappointment and beyond.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Lewis & Clark among the Indians Afterword
  • Maps, route information, food, horses, openhanded friendship—all gave the Corps of Discovery the edge that spelled the difference between success and failure. The presence of Sacagawea on the expedition's roster is only the barest hint of what Indian support meant to Lewis's "darling project."
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
The Way to the Western Sea Lewis and Clark across the Continent
  • They occasionally sold horses to the Corps for pewter buttons, pieces of brass, and strips of twisted wire. Using two of Sacagawea's "leather sutes," Charbonneau bought another mount for himself.
  • Another was a Shoshoni prisoner who, with Sacagawea and Charbonneau, could act as interpreter during the coming talks.
  • Most alarming was the illness of Sacagawea's son, by then about fifteen months old and cutting teeth. Infection swelled the lymph glands of his neck.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • David Lavender
Lewis & Clark among the Indians Introduction to the Bicentennial Edition
  • In the popular mind Jefferson's Corps of Discovery had only three members—Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea. Donald Jackson's magisterial Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition changed all that for those who were paying attention.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Western Historical Quarterly 33.1 (2002): 5–18
  • While Americans rejected Susan B. Anthony, the Sacagawea gold dollar is so much in demand that few can be found in circulation.
  • If there was one voice, then perhaps there were only four actors—Jefferson, Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea. By patiently locating, transcribing, and annotating more than 450 documents—everything from invoices for clothing and hardware to correspondence between politicians, diplomats, army officers, and private citizens—Jackson reimagined the story, breathing life into what was a dead subject.
  • This is a narrative country large enough for Sacagawea and Matilda Chapman, Attorney-General Levi Lincoln and Clatsop headman Coboway, French–Canadian boatman and sometime expedition fiddle player Pierre Cruzatte and St.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 5. Lewis and Clark as Plains Ethnographers
  • And of course there was the Shoshoni woman Sacagawea, whose contribution is simply impossible to verify. It seems more likely that whatever Lewis and Clark knew about the Shoshonis came from Hidatsa sources.
  • To provide shelter for themselves, the interpreters, Sacagawea, and her child Jean Baptiste, the captains purchased a buffalo skin tepee.
  • Undue attention to the supposed efforts of Sacagawea to "guide" Lewis and Clark has tended to obscure the vital contributions of Mandan and Hidatsa mapmakers to the American enterprise.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 7. Down the Columbia
  • As Clark was walking on shore with a small party that included Charbonneau, Sacagawea, and the Nez Perce guides, he idly shot a crane. Clark thought no more about the incident.
  • He repeated the performance at the other lodges and, with the help of the Nez Perce chiefs and the presence of Sacagawea, terror passed into what he claimed was "greatest friendship."
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains A Natural History
  • It was at one of these Hidatsa villages that the teenaged Shoshone woman Sacagawea was living with a French fur trader, Touissant Charbonneau. She had been captured and abducted near Three Forks about five years earlier by the Hidatsas, and had been won by Charbonneau on a wager.
  • Besides their basic exploratory party of 28 men, they had added 2 interpreters, including Touissant Charbonneau as well as Sacagawea and her infant son, Baptiste, born only about two months previously.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • Paul A. Johnsgard
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 9. The Way Home
  • Talks with the Walulas were simplified by the presence of a female Shoshoni prisoner who provided the necessary translation link between Sacagawea and the Sahaptian-speaking Walulas. "We conversed with them," wrote Lewis, "for several hours and fully satisfyed all their enquiries with rispect to ourselves and the objects of our pursuit."
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Lewis & Clark among the Indians 4. The Mandan Winter
  • Metaharta has special significance for the history of the expedition since it was there that the Shoshoni woman Sacagawea and the North West Company trader Toussaint Charbonneau lived before joining the Corps of Discovery.
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • James P. Ronda
Names 52:3 (September 2004):163–237 Copyright 2004 by The American Name Society 163
  • N.D.
  • Texts
  • William Bright

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