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Crosby, Michael T.

Sacagawea: Shoshone Explorer

(4) YA Shapers of America series. Crosby emphasizes Sacagawea's important role in Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery: a Shoshone captured by the Hidatsa she married a French-Canadian voyageur and acted as guide, interpreter, and indicator of peaceful intent, for no war party would include a woman and her baby. Though the text is dense, maps, photos, drawings, and sidebars add accessibility. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.

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