SACAGAWEA

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    1788

    Sacagawea is born into the Lemhi Shoshone tribes in the Salmon River region present day Idaho.
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    1803

    Sacagawea marries French-Canadian trader Toussaint Charbonneau at the Hidatsa-Mandan village near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.
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    February 11,1805

    Sacagawea gives birth to her first kid Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau at Fort Mandan.
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    May 14, 1805

    A squall threatens one of the corps's boats. Sacagawea rescues much of the contents and is praised by the captains.
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    June 29, 1805

    Sacagawea, Cark, Jean-Baptiste, and Charbonneau nearly drown in a flash flood near the Great Falls.
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    July 25,1805

    the corps nears three Rivers, where Sacagawea identifies the Shoshone hunting ground.
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    September 22, 1805

    the corps descends out of the Rocky Mountains onto the Weippe Prairie in present-day eastern Idaho
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    March 23,1806

    The corps starts its return journey home. They leave the Pacific Coast and head down the Columbia Rivers.