Bicentennial Story #106-Sakakawea not a guide

Bicentennial Story #106-Sakakawea not a guide

Description of Sakakawea's role on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

9/25/1975

Father Louis Pfaller

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BS-106

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

Romantic popularizers have created the legend that Sakakawea was the guide of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Fort Mandan to the Rockies. The young bride of 17 came along with her husband, Charbonneau, who was hired at Fort Mandan as an interpreter. Though Sakakawea was cheerful, courageous and resourceful, she did not know the way. However, she did point out to Captain Clark the location of Bozeman Pass, and on the return journey it was largely through her efforts that the expedition obtained material assistance from her people, the Shoshones in the Rockies. There is a statue of Sakakawea on the capitol grounds in Bismarck.

This is Bicentennial Story No. 106, prepared by Father Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society.

Reid, 68

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Bicentennial tape #6, Bicentennial stories 87-107