Sacajawea Buried in Wyoming after Interior Probe
The Interior Department bureau concludes Sacajawea the Bird Woman is buried at Fort Washakie Wyoming. The investigation followed a three month inquiry tracing her life after the Lewis and Clark expedition with Charbonneau. It confirms she lived among Shoshone Comanche and Gros Ventres peoples until her death in 1884 and notes her later years included marriage and family movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Washakie
Bureau
Charle Donneau
Jirk Meat
Dr John McLoughlin Pioneer of the Northwest Valor
A portrait of Dr John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Company leader, as a humanitarian force who aided American settlers and expanded trade from California to Alaska. The article credits his vision for Vancouver Island agriculture, Alaska trade, and Fort Vancouver, while noting his clashes with Britain and the North West Company and his eventual recognition after death.
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Montana
John McLoughlin
California
Alaska
Pacific
Rockies
Oregon
Columbia
United States
Hudson’s Bay
Northwest
McLoughlin
Maine
Malcolm Fraser
John
David
England
France
Napoleon
Canada
Quebec
MoeLaughlin
Fraser
Northwest Fur Company
London
Northwer Company
Hudson’s Bay Company
Red River
Vancouver
Fort Colville
Spokane
Spaulding
Levi Chamberlain
St. Mary’s Mission
Bitter Root
Dr. McLoughlin
Father DeSmet
Great Britain
Fort Vancouver
McLaughlin
Ferest
Globe
Simpson
Arctic
Columbia District
Hudson's Bay Fur Company
Columbia Basin
Doctor McLoughlin
Pacific Northwest
Grace Hebard
P. J. DE Smet
St. Mary's Mission
Hudson's Bay
Bird Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The article details the life of Bird Woman also known as Wadzewiper, her disappearance and later discovery among the Shoshone, and her modesty and crucial role as interpreter and guide. It notes her capture at 14, marriage to Charbonneau, and her act of saving expedition records when her husband overturned a boat. Eastman led the Bureau of Indian Affairs inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huband
Wadzewiper
Bird Woman
Charbonneau
Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Charles A. Eastman
Hero of Butte's Disaster Dies
John H. Steinborn, the oldest Butte police officer and one of the Kenyon Warehouse disaster survivors, died aged 73 after a long bronchial illness. He joined the force in 1892, chased the 1895 blaze, and returned to duty after a year in hospital, remembered for courage and steady service in Butte's mining era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
John H. Steinborn
J. H. Steinborn
Northwest
Rockies
Wisconsin
Nevada
Anna Marie Peterson
Steinborn
Gagnon
Kenyon Warehouse
Altough
Kobe College to mark 50th anniversary in October
Kobe College the first Christian girls school in western Japan plans a fifty year anniversary celebration next October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kobe College
Japan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sacajawea
Wyo
Department of Interior
Lewis and Clark
Interior Department
Bureau of Indian Afairs
Wyoming
By Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Montreal
Northwest Company
State College
Montana State College
Fort
Leys
Malaga
Ealf
Milwaukee
Jensen
Sole Agen
Batte
Butte's
John '.H
Brough
Bayer
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