There is not much reliable
historical information on Sacagawea, for example there is no portrait on
her. One myth is that she was
romantically involved with Lewis or Clark; the journals often shown that she
was very friendly with Clark and would often do favors for him, the idea of
them being romantically involved is possible.
Another myth that includes
Sacagawea involves a Shoshone woman who claimed to be her, and who died at the
Wind River Band reservation in Wyoming on April 9, 1884. The Wyoming DAR in
1963 went so far as to create a Sacagawea monument near Lander just because of
this claim. There is no proof of it being true, most serious explores don’t
believe it either.
Sacagawea was reported to have
died of a fever at Fort Manuel. She would have been around 25 years old. In
1813, The Shoshoni claim that Sacagawea did not die at Fort Manuel. They say
that she traveled to Shoshoni land to live with her tribe, dying only in 1884.
In this version, even Jean Baptiste came to live with them, dying a year after
his mother.
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