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 […]
Autumn of 2020 marks the 175th Anniversary of the first attempted crossing of Mt. Hood’s Oregon Trail and the 173rd Anniversary of the first toll road—known as the Barlow Trail—over the Cascade Mountain Range. The Barlow Trail was the final overland link of the Oregon Trail that allowed emigrant travelers a cheaper, quicker but still […]