Word: sacajawea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corps of Discovery was composed of hardy Kentucky hunters and frontiersmen, French boatmen and soldiers in leather collars with their hair in pigtails. Clark's Negro servant, York, was along, and later they were joined by Sacajawea, the Indian wife of a French-Canadian interpreter. The expedition moved up the Missouri River and spent the first winter (1804-05) at Fort Mandan, the last outpost of white civilization, near present-day Bismarck, N. Dak. In descriptive and often charmingly misspelled prose, the captains recorded in their daily journals a lively narrative of the adventurous trip that, once they entered...
...Idaho border, they followed the Jefferson River to what they thought (wrongly) was the source of the Missouri; one man straddled the little stream and "thanked his god that he had lived to bestride the mighty & heretofore deemed endless Missouri." At Lemhi Pass on the Continental Divide, they met Sacajawea's people, the Shoshones, who supplied them with horses and a guide...
...great explorers-coolheadedness, caution and iron self-discipline-are precisely the ones the moviemakers have thrown out the window. The Lewis and Clark of Far Horizons (Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston) are Hollywoodized into a pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even...