Sacagawea, a Native explorer, was born around 2778 to a Shoshone Chief. When she was young, around the age of 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and was sold to Toussaint Charbonneau as a bride. In 1804, Lewis and Clark met her husband, whom they hired as an interpreter for thei...
Native Americans, predominantly Arapaho and Shoshone, make up more than 2% of Wyoming’s population. More than half of this population resides on the almost two million-acre (810,000-hectare) Wind River Reservation in Wyoming’s west-central region. The locations of military posts such as Fort...
(Gros Ventre) are of the northeastern corner, while the Kutenai are in the northwestern corner. These are not the only tribes who had a presence in Montana. The Lakota, Shoshone, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Arapaho all claim an early history to the state in the 17th century stating they ...
With the closing of the copper mines at Butte, the smelter in Anaconda, and the copper refinery at Great Falls in the early 1980s, there was a turning point in Montana’s history. The state does not heavily rely on the primary economic sector as more emphasis has been placed on tourism ...
Sacagawea (Sacajawea), Shoshone Indian woman who, as interpreter, traveled thousands of miles with the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–06), from the Mandan-Hidatsa villages in the Dakotas to the Pacific Northwest. Read here to learn more about Sacagawe
” With huge reclamation projects, the river valley contains most of Idaho’s irrigated farmland. The course of the Snake River includesHells Canyon—at 7,900 feet (2,400 metres)North America’sdeepest gorge—and 212-foot- (65-metre-) highShoshone Falls. Its valley is a geologically complex...
Shoshone FallsShoshone Falls on the Snake River, near Twin Falls, southern Idaho. Travelers on the nearby Oregon Trail often made a short detour to view the falls.(more) The first missionary group to the West left Independence in 1834. Led byJason Lee, its members joined a party headed by...
Shoshone Falls Shoshone Falls, southern Idaho.(more) Diversity of the natural environment is characteristic of Idaho’s landscape, creating a sectionalism that is reflected in the state’s community life, politics, economy, and cultural development, as well as in the varieties of its soils and ...
the Snake River from the north. Other northern side streams sink into the Snake River Plain and become part of animmenseundergroundreservoir. Twin Falls andShoshone Falls, with drops of 65 and 212 feet (20 and 65 metres) respectively, are located nearTwin Fallscity, downstream from Milner Dam...
” Fortunately, in mid-August he met a Shoshone band led by Sacagawea’s brotherCameahwait, who provided the expedition with horses. The Shoshone guide Old Toby joined the expedition and led them across theBitterroot Range. On the crossing, Clarklamented, “I have been wet and as cold in...