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Meriwether Lewis

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Meriwether Lewis
Charles Willson Peale / Public domain · resizedfile
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The Corps of Discovery needed horses to cross the Rocky Mountains. Sacagawea made the Shoshone negotiations possible as the last link in a chain of interpreters. The National Park Service traces how the captains’ words passed through English, French, and Hidatsa on their way to Shoshone.
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