Sacagawea and The Skeleton Trail

Sacagawea said that she had traveled a long way to see the ocean and had not the skeleton (the whale?s skeleton was measured to be feet in length).
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Simply because she was a woman, Sacagawea helped the Corps.

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Among the tribes the explorers met, her presence dispelled the notion that the group was a war party. A woman with a party of men is a token of peace. The Corps was eager to find the Shoshone and trade with them for horses. The success of the journey hinged on finding the tribe: Recognizing landmarks in her old neighborhood , Sacagawea reassured the explorers that the Shoshone - and their horses - would soon be found.

When the Expedition did meet the Shoshone, Sacagawea helped the Corps communicate, translating along with her husband. As the Corps traveled eastward in , returning to St. Louis, they stopped again at the Mandan and Hidatsa villages. There Sacagawea and her family ended their journey. Although opinions differ, it is generally believed that she died at Fort Manuel Lisa near present-day Kenel, South Dakota.

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PBS site with biography of Sacagawea. Omaha , NE A day or two after Christmas , the captains were informed by some Indians that a whale had died on the beach near a Tillamook village southwest of the fort. Captain Lewis was eager to go and see it, but high wind delayed his trip.

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On January third some Clatsop Indians brought foodstuffs to sell to the Americans: Later, Lewis took the liberty of naming it "Clark's Mountain and point of view. On 7 January, after passing the salt works and continuing along the "round Slippery Stones under a high hill," Clark related, "my guide made a Sudin halt, pointed to the top of the mountain and uttered the word Pe Shack which means bad, and made Signs that we. After two hours of "labour and fatigue," at one point drawing themselves up by bushes and roots, they reached the summit of Bald Mountain.

As they climbed over the 1,foot headland, Clark paused at a scenic viewpoint some precipitous feet above the surf:.

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T his panorama was photographed from the promontory on which Clark may have stood. Called Bird Point today, it has eroded considerably since then by wind and rain. Indeed, Clark noted that even at that time the headland was "slipping from the Sides of the high hills, in emence masses; fifty or a hundred acres at a time give way and a great proportion of an instant precipitated into the Ocean. Just out of sight to the south left in the panorama is Ecola Creek, where the whale's remains were.

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In the schooner Shark sank nearby, and a portion of her deck bearing a small cannon washed ashore in that vicinity. The community of Cannon Beach, now a resort center, began in A short distance offshore is foot Haystack Rock, also out of the camera's view. The larger of the two rocks in the ocean at northwest by north is Tillamook Rock, on which a lighthouse stood from until In the lighthouse was turned into a columbarium—a repository for the ashes of cremated bodies.