Sacagawea collection, 1920-1927.

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Sacagawea collection, 1920-1927.

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Correspondence and essays relating to Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who served as guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806). Persons represented include Frances Birkhead Beard, Charles H. Burke, Helen M. Crawford, Charles Alexander Eastman, William J. Ghent, David Hilger, John C. Luttig, Nelson A. Mason, and Doane Robinson.

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Sacagawea, 1786-1884

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Sacagawea, also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea, born in the Lemhi River Valley, near present-day Salmon, IdahoMay circa 1788. She died December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884, Kenel South Dakota or in Wyoming. She 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 cu...

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)

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After elected president, Thomas Jefferson wanted a direct and practicable water communication across the continent and US sovereignty over the land occupied by the many different Indian tribes along the Missouri River. In 1803, Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery and named Army Captain Meriwether Lewis its leader. Lewis selected William Clark as second in command. The Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois (Illinois) on May 14, 1804, and met up with Lewis in St. Charles, Missour...

Ghent, William J. (William James), 1866-1942

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of William J. Ghent, 1876-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063264 Biographical Note 1866, Apr. 29 Born, Frankfort, Ind. 1894 Founder, Social Reform Club, New York, N.Y. 1...

Mason, Nelson A., 1884-1959

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Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946

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Historian. Jonah Leroy (Doane) Robinson was secretary of the South Dakota State Historical Society and superintendent fo the State Department of History from 1901 to 1926. As superintendent of the Department of History, he served as head of the state library, vital statistics bureau, and legislative reference division. He also collected the items which formed the basis for the Robinson museum and the State Portrait Gallery. In his official capacities, Robinson collected ...

Crawford, Helen M.

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Hilger, David

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Luttig, John C., -1815

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Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939

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Mixed Mdewakanton Sioux physician, writer and lecturer on Indian topics, and government employee. Born in 1858 in Minnesota of Jacob Eastman (Many Lightnings) and his mixed-blood wife, Mary Nancy Eastman, the daughter of painter Seth Eastman, Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) was raised in what is now North Dakota as a traditional Sioux, and later graduated from Dartmouth College (1887) and the Boston University School of Medicine (1890). He had a varied career, includ...

Beard, Frances Birkhead

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Burke, Charles H.

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