Toussaint Charbonneau was a French-Canadian trapper and fur trader. He bought Sacagawea from a Native American tribe that had kidnapped her from her own tribe when she was about 12 years old. Both Charbonneau and Sacagawea accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition as translators....
“dumb idol” and alleged that he was too old and intellectually feeble to handle the strains of office. Harrison responded by doing the unthinkable: he went on the campaign trail. In the 1840s, it was considered unseemly for a presidential candidate to actively participate in electioneering, ...