The name is very familiar, but what this teenaged girl did—and what she meant to the nation—is often forgotten. Sacagawea was a pregnant 16 year-old who joined her French-Canadian husband when he was hired as an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804. She became America's first female explorer. She carried her baby son from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean. Twice she saved the expeditio


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