Uncrowned Heroine, Among Great Men

America’s first female explorer was a teenager and new mother who carried her infant on her back as she walked across half the country. She was a guide who wasn’t paid a cent, and Lewis and Clark wouldn’t use her real name on a single landmark. But Sacagawea would end up just as famous as the men who claimed the West for the United States and would become the most celebrated American woman of any color. We met her first in a cryptic note written with peculiar spelling by William Clark o