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The son of Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea traveled as an infant on his mother's back all the way to the Pacific Ocean beaches in Oregon Territory. After the expedition, Capt. William Clark ...
Sacagawea lived as a captive of the Hidatsa for three years until she married a 38-year-old French Canadian fur trader, Toussaint Charbonneau, who lived among the tribe. Charbonneau was already ...
There, she was later sold as a slave to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader who claimed Sacagawea and another Shoshone woman as his “wives.” In November 1804, the Corps of ...
Sacagawea lived among the Hidatsa tribe until 1803 or 1804, when she and another Shoshone woman were either sold or gambled away to a French-Canadian fur trader named Toussaint Charbonneau ...
They continue to say that she [Sacajewea] was the wife of Toussaint Charbonneau. How could she possibly be the wife of Charbonneau? She was an enslaved woman who, according to their account ...
And of course, while still a teenager, she and her French fur trapper husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, agreed to serve as interpreters and guides for the Lewis and Clark expedition. A six-foot tall ...
After she was captured, a French-Canadian trader living amongst the Hidatsa named Toussaint Charbonneau claimed her as one of ...
Apparently, Sacagawea’s husband — Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper — wasn’t a man of much worth, but their son, Jean Baptiste, was a guide extraordinaire. He is much ...