Sacagawea & Jean Baptiste Close-up
Fort Clatsop in Clatsop County, OR
Bronze statue of Sacagawea and her infant son Jean Baptiste by Jim Demetro.
Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition built and occupied Fort Clatsop in the winter of 1805/1806.
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