Sacagawea

This biography introduces young readers to the life of Shoshone Native American Sacagawea. Readers learn about Sacagawea's tribe, childhood, and capture by a Hidatsa tribe. Sacagawea's marriage to French-Canadian fur trapper Toussaint Charbonneau is also covered. Readers discover that Sacagawea traveled with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who were leading an exploration to the land west of the Mississippi River, known at that time as the Louisiana Territory, for President Thomas Jefferson. Engaging text explains how Sacagawea helped guide and feed the explorers as they traveled the Missouri, Lemhi, Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia rivers and traversed the Rocky Mountains. A detailed map allows readers to follow this Voyage of Discovery. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text. Travel with Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, sail with Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso, map the Rocky Mountains with John C. Frémont, and much more as daring explorers discover what lay beyond the next mountain, river, or ocean. Includes Would You? questions, comprehensive timelines and maps, and more. Each title has a timeline of exploration history & all the featured explorers at the bottom of the page spreads.