When Lewis and Clark arrived in the Hidatsa-Mandan territory in October 1804, they hired French trapper Toussaint Charbonneau and his pregnant Shoshone wife Sacagawea as interpreters for their expedition. Wintering at Fort Mandan, on February 11, 1805, Lewis recorded the birth of Jean Baptiste: “About five Oclock this evening one of the wives of Charbonneau […]
